The Best Way to use Urine as Fertilizer
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- Michael shares a less known way to use PEE as fertilizer on plants! It's a mulch urinal. Pee + Mulch = match made in heaven.
Let us know in the comments if you have any questions about this method. Would love to hear your thoughts! Cheers ;)
This is the first video we made about using urine on plants:
• Is urine good for plants?
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One of the Danish brewers supplies large straw bales to festivals for urinals. They then truck them out to the same fields where the barley was grown. I think the slogan was, "help us make more beer with the beer you drank"...
That’s awesome 👏
@@OffGridHawaii They did it for Roskilde Festival, a BIG music festival here in Danmark. Tuborg sponsors a LOT of music here.
I like your bringing the use of pee in the garden to light. We're on a septic tank here, and every liter saved means money. Most folks would be surprised at how quickly it all adds up. Hey, free fertilizer!
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Sorry for the basic question but since those balls are quite high, people pee on the side of it not on the top right ? But most pee would then flood on the floor no?
Been doing this a while myself. I advise use of biochar as well if you have any on hand, otherwise any mulch-type organic material works great! Crazy? Maybe. But not as crazy as pissing in perfectly clean water.
😂 Never thought of it that way before...you are absolutely correct !!!
Love 💕 your comment! I used a compost toilet for a year. It really opened up my eyes, to new ways to deal with our humanure
Copy that! Thank you!
Excellent video. Fun fact: the NPK of urine is about 11:2:4 NPK. That’s almost a perfect combination for vegetables.
thats so hard to say though, it depends on time of urine, and your diet. first pee of the morning from a carnivore is very different from last pee from a fruitarian, or even the pee from an alcoholic.
This is not what makes it to the garden though. When you pee on carbon sources much of the nitrogen is used by bacteria to breakdown the carbon.
I lived in a suburban co-op house filled with Permies.and we had this exact same system The pee from 8 dudes made very short work of our leaf pile, but that mulch worked so well, our corn grown in a very abused allotment was over 12 feet tall that year!
Wow! Works great for corn 🌽
You can dig a trench beside a row of corn, add pee, and then cover it up right away. The corn will grow like crazy.
Dude, back on TH-cam after a little break; I'm a small hemp farmer in Southeast Idaho on my reservation and I totally watched the earlier videos while I was building a small food farm for the family during the 2020 lockdown. Your tips on plant care and planting/preparation (even though you're growing tropical) really helped me get my operation off the ground and put some things in perspective. Mahalo for the videos and your food forest in Puna is amazing after all the work you put in :D
Glad we could help!
I did a video about this a couple years ago - using wood chips and urine to make nitrified Earth for fertilizer instead of gunpowder (making potassium nitrate part one). Its still my most viewed video! Most folks come in because they are interested in nitrate for boom boom .. but a few stick around for the gardening 😊 This method really does make fantastic fertilizer!
I poured urine on my compost pile last week and it was amazing how hot the pile got over the next few days. It’s an incredible accelerator! 🤙
Nice! Was it a stinky 5 gallon bucket? 😫😂 The results really are amazing though ✨
@@OffGridHawaiihaha I had several stinky 1 gallon containers. I reuse the containers from the protein powders I buy.
@@OffGridHawaiiafter a long time you guys are making a video. I piss in a bucket and then end of the day I take and collect it in a bigger barrel. After a month or so I will pour some and add to the fruit trees
Smelly.
“Carbon Based Composting Bin” (CBCB)
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Dad: "Alright time to add more fertilizer to the compost bin." - passes the piss bucket around to all the family members -
urine had multiple uses all throughout history. though i haven't been brave enough to do it, i have read that the romans even used it to tan hides..... which is probably a lot cleaner and safer for the environment than chromium.
The Romans??? They were using this until at least Victorian times in the UK to tan hides
Awesome post, my wife & I have been living off grid in South East Missouri for the last year & a half. We have a compost toilet built from the design in Joseph Jenkins Humanure Handbook & I will definitely be adding one of these for outside. It still blows my mind when I think of all the years & gallons we flushed down the toilet wasting precious water before making the switch. Thanks for the post, new subscriber now & wishing you all the best in your future endeavors 💖
we relocated to Semo ozarks 3 months ago to live more free and sustainably as well. Good luck in your adventures its been awesome for us so far. The forest surrounding the property started waking up from winter about a week ago. the little spring peeper frog chirping at dusk is really cool.
Its good to see you two back and with a third. Congratulations🎉🎉🎉
this is so good! im going to make one tomorrow yay! thank you for sharing
Great to see y’all post more videos! Always enjoy watching your projects! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! 🤙🏾🌺
I made something similar last autumn. I made a cylinder with chicken wire and bamboo rods to hold it up. I filled it with leaves and grass when I mowed my lawn. I collected my pee a few times and poured onto the leaves. As they settled, I kept adding more leaves and grass with occasional additions of pee. It has turned into beautiful rich compost, full of worms. This really works well.
Awesome ,will be building on of these tomorrow !
Hello,it's nice to see you guys back!😊I loved watching your videos about planting, ect.i started watching when you guys went and checked the property and started cleaning, etc.Keep doing an amazing job.🤠
Welcome back!
For ladies. Pee in a bucket full of mulch, then dump that. The mulch keeps scent down and you don't see a bucket full of pee.
Been using in my bags of leaves, breaks down real good
OH MY GOD YOU ARE BACK!! MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!
Great tip!
Great idea!
Excellent video! Subscribed
I'm showing my friends this and helping them start a garden, as well as improve their mulch. Your video is the best I've found for sharing with them 🙂👍👏
Thanks 😊 happy to help
I've been doing this with fall leaves in the north. Huge pile like 1000 lbs. You can also pee into jugs in your shed and dump it on the pile if you dont have much privacy. You have to buy a widemouth jug of juice at the grocer to make it easier.
great idea with the stump!
Thank you! Cheers!
I started compost tea with urine, crab, salmon and woodchip compost, its definately increased the health of my crops compared to not using urine, it definately smells and i never ever get sick.
Good job mate, great vid & tips, and an innovative idea for maybe reducing paddock stumps too.
I have recently started a composting heap on 40 acres so I have heaps of long grass & weeds I can slash & make a huge haystack with it. I just keep burying all our food scraps, fish carcasses, cow, horse & chicken poop, a bit of lime and a heap of pee, a little fertiliser and keep adding trailer loads of grass & weed cuttings, seaweed extract, worm castings, leaves, paper, pine needles, etc.
I have a backhoe if I need to give it a stir up occasionally & plan to turn some of my cleared wattle heaps into biochar to also add some extra structure, rather than just letting the heaps burn to total ash, I will irrigate them out when they are essentially coals to save the biochar, it’s all about microbial activity at the end of the day isn’t it.
I want to improve my soil structure around my fruit trees and a new veg garden, so I need to make a fair bit over the next year or so. TFS.
Great idea! ...will route urinal straight out the wall into a mulch bin.
u can also add verms used in vermicompost and sm sugar water or molasses to make the process faster of breaking down waste to making compost from mulch urinal.
Thanks!
I am composting urine into some free sawdust with oyster shell lime or dolomitic lime and azomite. Works awesome. I was composting into contractor black plastic bags and I have a compost tumbler. I did have trouble with one bag getting rain in it. Wish I had more compost tumblers. I may have to try something like this. I also straight up throw urine on my regular compost pile and it does really accelerate composting. Some lime is always good too, for minerals and ph.
Mahalo Michael, it is always a pleasure see another insightful video from you guys.
While you are the one in front of the camera I know that the rest of the team must be behind the camera cheering you on.
I have been peeing on my little compost pile for quite some time now. I have noticed that as long as you keep it in an aerobic state it has no odor.
Hope your little lady is doing well.
She'll be driving soon, so be prepared.
Looking forward to your next video, cheers.
Yes this video was my genius idea so Paulina had to film 🎥. Our son is a boy! His hair is getting so long though 😂 and he’s already driving the tractor 🚜.
Cheers to rich compost! 🍻✨
Hello guys,
In my appreciation of you sharing useful info, I am sending you my SUPER THANKS.
💗 Wow this is so absolutely generous of you! Thank you very much. It is inspiring us to keep going sharing our journey and knowledge here. Aloha 🤙🏾✨
You can also just pee directly onto soil below your plants once every week or two when you would normally fertilize as well. You’re just giving them a small nitrogen boost so best to spread out when you apply it.
Is the urine considered "too hot"? Can it burn the plants if it's not diluted?
@@earthzeroapothecary yes
thank you!
I do this with charcoal and catch the runoff urine in a basin. I use the runoff like I would use miracle grow. I like the way you do it so I might make your set up.
Yessah 🤙 I used to do that too. Love how it turns black from the charcoal. It’s good to try a bunch of things to see what you like best and what works best for you. Aloha
Everyone in the neighborhood wants to know how I keep the gophers out yard.😂😂😂
Really? With urine mulch on your plants or something more aggressive?
Whoa!!! Wonder if it will deter deer 🦌 and rabbits 🐇
That would be incredible!!!
@@bethdeason5002I was applying diluted urine fertilizer on and around my sunflowers, unfortunately it didn't work the rabbits devoured them. The pee was well aged though so that might have weakened it.
Nice idea! I'm interested in trying this with wood chips. Maybe make it wider but like a Johnson-Su style reactor with air in the middle? Definitely something I'm interested in exploring further. (Wouldn't call it revolutionary though, that word gets thrown around way to easily.)
In general, I'm more interested in using urine to create compost than using it directly as fertilizer. Although "natural", urine is still a quick-release chemical fertilizer that could cause imbalances in the soil food web.
I've also looked into extracting struvite from urine, which becomes a slow-release fertilizer powder. But even that is something one should use with care. And much more difficult to do.
Been doing this for decades on my leafmould pile.
thank you for sharing
Great idea !
Do you cover it to keep the rain out ?
Up here in cold Volcano, I think I'd do that also.
We use U on everything and the yard is lush, green, and full of life.
You can cover it or keep in a covered location. it will be will be more potent and break down faster. I do both here
Great idea… 20 litre bucket with holes drilled in the bottom… that way I can dump it straight into my garden where needed..!😊
My family been using grass cuttings that would be lawn clippings as a urinal for last forty years or so other organic matter like weeds and kitchen waste go in as well, This was probably down to a tv gardener called Bob flowerdew.
I have a small garden and m a key my own compost . I always let my grandson pee on the pile while we are out in the backyard. He thinks that's so cool. Truthfully I also do it when I'm outside. Good information. Just found you guys.
Great!!! 👍❣
I used to get a small bucket, maybe 4 litre, and half fill with sawdust. Pee in it for about a week or nearly full, then transfer it to the compost heap as the "green nitrogen" component (although the sawdust was obviously "brown', but I reckon the urine outweighed it). I can't get sawdust near me anymore so I started using chaff instead. Works fine.
Great idea!
Been pissing on my compost pile all winter can't wait to smell it!
u can use septic tank waste or honey sucker tank as fertilizer or mix 50% with cowdung to make vermicompost.
If you want the stump to break down a little faster, drill some holes down into it so that the urine can break it down from from the inside out
Giving me some good ideas on our coffee/avocate farm in Colombia,,,now converting to exoic fruit , EXOTIC LUMBER.
One thong i dont see anybody doing are tropical lumber trees, they are very scarce now in the wild and with some patience can give a good 'retirement'..i know nobody in this stuff retires.
Heres a few..Mohogany, Spanish Ceder, the Rose wood family (Siamese, Burmese ).
.In hawaii.,a sandle wood , monkey pod, these two are very expensive amd rare.
Many more but those are some of the rarest, hence more expensive..and they could use some help.
Probobly the most beautiful are the Gauyacon Amatillo/ Rosada (yellow/red) lose all there leave and turn into one huge flower.
Michael, I think i walked right by you in Home Depot today. But we have peed around our fruit trees, but defiantly got to give this a try.
Yup I was there 😊 definitely give it a try, it’s so nice to not have to think about what tree to pee on
Similar to the Jonson Sue bioreactor. I do something like this too! We have so much guava, we run it through the woodchipper. It breaks down pretty quickly here in the rainforest.
That’s awesome! We made a Jonson sue in 2022 that was part of our wedding ceremony on our land 😂🌺
Great you get to chip all that guava! Nice channel btw 🤙🏾🤙🏾
@OffGridHawaii Thanks! Chipping the guava is a ton of work but it really adds good loam to the soil so I try to keep it up.
Let me know if you'd ever like to nerd out over plants!!! 😆
I’ve been using biochar and in my compost it’s urine and much more combined to make enrichment for soil.
That’s great! The mulch urinal is 1 of 3 ways we make fertilizer/compost at home. We have a video coming out this Saturday about chicken compost and then some time in the future sharing our most potent fertilizer which includes biochar, so stay tuned☺️
It starts crazy, 10 seconds in, piss fertilizer and I can’t remember if it’s 6 months or a year we are doing it…. Nice!!! Can’t wait for the rest. The vid was great
😂 yeah I could have been more clear but I just wanted to keep it simple. The longer you wait the more broken down it will get. Just experiment and see what you like.
Yeah it’s all good! I was just trying to be funny. Tough to translate in a written message
No, yeah I understood the humor. Thanks for commenting!
it's too salty for te soil, but in mulch may be reduces its salts ?
I have a barrel I fill with compost scraps and my urine a la David the Good's put in anything composting. Lookin forward to using it this spring and summer, hopefully its not too acidic.
I wish you still uploaded.
Aloha
We prefer tubing of some sort of handy material. Re-use likely. Buckets work but so do you.
Hi-tech 😉
His voice reminds me of "Nick" from Backyard Bowyer.
Planning on doing off grid 4 season, including long harsh winters. What do you think the cold weather/freezing liquid would do to the mulch?
went to a big music festival where they had hay-bales lined up as “urinals” inside a circus tent lol
Poocycling and Peecycling are the future
Yes!!! They are our present 🎁 😂
@@OffGridHawaii when I lived in Korea the farmers had been poocycling for eons.
Especially is smaller islands. Gotta keep those nutrients cycling through.
Yep agree. I have collected my poop and pee and added to the compost heap. Even the vermicompost heap. But I do leave the final compost to further mature for at least 6 months before putting in veges so that the human bacteria are destroyed by the microbes in the compost itself.
most people are on meds and eat poorly..... yuck
Hey Michael
Good to see you guys online again!
Do you know if freemulch is available westward, Nahalehu and ocean view?
There are two other locations but I haven’t been to them. One in Waikaloa and one in Kona
@@OffGridHawaii Thanks! A bit of a drive, but maybe would work on a mixed supply run.
Keep up the food work!
What you’ve done is what Elizabeth Zimmerman called an Unvention. that was her name for any great idea she had when she couldn’t find other sources mentioning it, but could not believe she was actually the first person to think of it.
Yeah i definitely knew I didn’t come up with it, but I hadn’t seen it before at all
Joe Hollis with Mountain Gardens made a video, posted on their channel, doing this same thing but with fallen leaves in the forest. So you can do this even if you don't have access to mulch!
Great idea with the leaves 🍁
Care for the aina 😊
Hey bra saw your urine compost video cool I love it are you on the big island?
I live on the big island west side growing dragon fruit planning on trying this for myself Aloha
Yes we are on big island
I used to pee in a jug, and then pour it right on the garden beds, but found it very inefficient. I started just pouring my pee jug right on to the compost pile like you showed. Been doing it for years and can't find a reason to stop!
Did you drill any holes in the sides or top of the ohia stump? Might help the nitrogen get in there a little more to break it down.
I didn’t but yeah that would probably help it break down faster. 😊
I’m testing out if undiluted urine can help fight aphids and ants. Though it seems at least the ants die, still monitoring the aphids.
I believe too much nitrogen will attract aphids and whitefly
That is exelente 🎉
Maybe this has been asked. What does the pH go to? Curious to know if it’s good for acid loving plants.
Haven’t done any test ,but it would be interesting to find out.
What would you do with the urin in winter? Here in Germany it is cold from november to february.
You can definitely still use it. Might just have to wait til spring to empty it.
You should do an experiment. One plant with no pee in the mulch and one with the pee. Show us the results.
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Winter!😅
The best free organic fertilizer! I just dilute it in water. 1:9 ratio.
Works great as a liquid too😉
@@OffGridHawaii better than any other fertilizer sold in the market plus it makes fruits sweeter and bigger! Best for vine vegetable and okra especially when soil is poor or unfertile. If you combine it with semi fermented fruit juices diluted in water the better result. Best applied in soil during dry months.
Note….unwise to smell or breathe the air from mulch due to Legionella bacteria
Thanks
I was wondering if the salts would have a negative effect on the earthworms
Doesn’t seem to bother them
im pretty sure rain washes out the salts
interesting..
Indeed
He gets county mulch for free? What IS county mulch; what is in them?
We made a video a little while ago about county mulch, see if you can find it and watch it’s pretty cool. It’s basically all the green waste from the island gets chopped up and composted at the facility and is given away for free once a month.
Where do you get you county mulch?
In Hilo, but there is one in waikaloa and one in Kona too.
The presence of the worms shows that the urine compost isn't too "hot" to use. I have successfully used urine as fertilizer by diluting it with water. I'm currently using urine on a 4 cubic yard pile of fresh woodchips. My expectation is that the chips that absorb some of the urine will break down faster as it is spread as mulch for food trees.
Great! Let us know how it works out!!
@@OffGridHawaii Will do.
been doing it for years....screen your wood chips with 1/2 inch screen 1st.... add egg shells.@@leoscheibelhut940
I do similar I am just scared to talk about it and get canceled
Canceled by who?
i would like to know why you dont let it touch the base of the plants
Pretty much goes for all mulch, you don’t want to put mulch right up against the trunk because it may rot it.
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
How long it takes to break one pile of urine mulch?
It depends how broken down you want it. I usually fill it to the top keeping the mulch loose and fluffy and in about 2-3 months it will reduce to half the size. This may vary depending on the type of mulch you are using.
Put cardboard around the tree and then the mulch Perma Pasture Farms shows how
I actually watch his channel and know about the cardboard. I really don’t use that technique much though.
Can you please address the possible issues prescription medications may have on using urine this way.
We don’t know much about it other then some medication may be bad for soils. I would think antibiotics would not be good . If you have any info you want to share please do so others reading the comments can learn. Thank you ☺️
@@OffGridHawaii which?
Which what?
Which medications may be bad for the soil besides antibiotics?
Oh yeah we aren’t sure. You will have to do your own research. I’m sure there is plenty info.
How much urine is to be used as it contains salts which are harmful to the plants?
Good question. We use ours every day and I would say about 90% of our pee goes in them. We haven’t noticed any negative effects on the plants.
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urinate on wood chips. This will be longer than mulch BUT the urine will accelerate the degradation process from the chips.
Have you ever had the end product (no pun intended) tested for NPK?
Looks like you have Jumping worms.
Stay Well!!!
No, but I really would like to.
do you over it up on top?
We don’t cover it but you can
thank you!@@OffGridHawaii
Won't most of the ammonia volatize?
I don’t think so.
I would add biochar to anything I pee onto… that mulch will be Über-Mulch if you do that… Cation numbers will be off the charts!
theory....but anyway.... yet to see good science about this...all speculation@@daveheller4488
Hope that's not an invasive jumping worm. Yikes...they scare me
I never saw anything like it.
I grow trichocereus cactus and they love pee.
Hey mulch leaves with your lawn mower ain't hard
Horticulturist here always looking for ways to make better use of every day items. Can't get much more every day than pee,lol.
aaaaah, Beavis....aaaaah, he said invention.....aaaaaaah......yeah, yeah......aaaaaaah.....he said pea.....aaaaah.
I pee on my lemon tree
i have a house full of men..... they're probably going to love this idea.
might even set it up so the boy dogs can hike their legs on it as well.
but.... i actually like the idea of using a hardware cloth catch system for my rabbit hutches. those jokers do nothing but pee and poop, and yet their manure is some of the best for a garden. i just haven't found a way to catch it that doesn't end up utterly disgusting and impossible to touch.
Is it ok to use urine if we are taking medicine?
I’ve heard you shouldn’t use it, but I’m not sure what medication are bad.