There’s been a lot about urine in the news lately. Juan Manuel Marquez was saying that he was drinking his own urine leading up to his fight with Floyd Mayweather.
As fascinating as that story is, the story that piqued my interest even more was the one about urinating on your tomatoes and how it can help to give you fruits four times larger.
I decided to give it a go and urinated on my cherry tomato plant on my fire escape garden. Don’t worry before I started, I looked and gave a yell so no one got hit with some unexpected rain.
According to the research done by the Finnish team, it’s actually a mixture of urine and wood ash that is the ultimate eco-friendly fertilizer. I just used my urine.
LMAO! Love it! Plus the tomato shot is even better!
Thanks. It's all about experimentation.
You're such a freakin' rockstar. Love ya, bro.
Haha. Thanks Mike. Figured it was worth a shot.
LOL, how nice of the upstairs neighbor to catch that shot!
Four times larger, heh? So, have the cherry toms turned into beefsteaks?
LOL. Not yet. Need to nourish them some more.
Just an excuse for public urination *tsk tsk*
Lol!
It'll be interesting to see if it works!
That's awesome! Gardeners add animal waste all the time to their gardens, so what's so different if we add our own? Go humanure!
Since I left college, I've been looking for excuses. Should've grown tomatoes years ago.
Word up. I'm down with that.
Lemme see ya do the solids thing, faint heart! I dilute mine about three parts water to one urine, not to burn tender roots and chutes! It works great! France has done it for centuries, China even longer, and guess what! It works very well.Look on Google, see the large green rings around Asian cities? They buy and sell the stuff, fight over collection rights, and don't always pre-treat solids giving way to parasite outbreaks from time to time, and all preventable! America must learn to bio-gas all its humanure to fuel and topsoil building fertilizers, radiated to safety standards, before it is too late and we start getting sewage residues in our drinking water, and spoil all our lakes, rivers and seashores, but in a corporate world the question is, as always, “Who pays”? And nobody steps up to the plate! Time methinks for a socialist legislation, making everyone who Shiites pay, and in America, everyone Shiites! P.S. Oslo, capital of Norway runs buses on biogas from sewage as we speak, and pay smaller fuel oil bills for their efforts, see web for details!
I hope you wash them first! I suppose you it's a good source of urea for the soil 🙂
Lemon trees love it too!
Wow not really sure how to respond to that one. Thanks for the comment though.
Unfortunately, no lemon tree on the fire escape.
This is truly a brilliant idea. No toilet seat to put down. Doesn't matter if you miss. No one has to clean up after you…
Wish I knew about this when my 4 sons lived at home.
Thanks for the comment Susan. Well the people down below might care. Luckily no one was hurt during that photo.
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I have been reading about this too. Did it work?
Too early to tell at this point. Might've done too late in the season, but no harm was done.
If you pee on your compost when you first start it up it will compost way faster. Gross but true.
Interesting. I'll have to take that into consideration for next spring. Thanks for the tip.
Hey Mike,
Dig your style buddy.
Gonna give it a go on my roma's this season and let you know if I end up with prize winners.
Thanks. Def keep me updated.
Hey Mike,
Dig your style buddy.
Gonna give it a go on my roma's this season and let you know if I end up with prize winners.
Thanks. Def keep me updated.
I hate to tell on something that has embarrassed me for years, but my mom has always did a combo of urine and something else (?)…I wasn’t listening…yuck. But, she won her neighborhood YARD of the SEASON every year! Wonder what her secret is? 🙂
mike, if i’m outside and need to pee, i just head over to the compost pile and let it go. i would think there are excess minerals in urine that would be beneficial to the compost pile.
Absolutely.
Don’t worry. I won’t tell 😉
Nice one Mike. Actually urine is a rich source of the nitrogen plants need to grow. Yellowing leaves is usually a sign of nitrogen deficit. Another way to add it to soil is through coffee grounds or to a lesser extent, tea leaves.
The only danger with direct hosing is that the ammonia may burn the plants. Churning it into compost is a workaround. I know that’ll work great with your indoor composter 😉
Thanks for the advice!
I piss in my compost pile(s) to take away the need for flushing water down the toilet, and it really helps speed up the process too. I’ve done that with tomatoes in the past, except I went in a gallon jar and diluted it with 8X water – 1X urine.
That’s what’s up!
Wanna’ see your skin glow? Nature’s toner. And if I’m really sick, I already know what will heal me. It’s all within. Call me when the tomatoes are ready. 🙂
Nice!
Love it. Only for the truly dedicated gardeners… :p
That’s how I roll.
So… how big are they? 😉
Wouldnt you like to know?
Did it help? How often did you pee on them? This is fascinating.
You guys probably masturbate on your plants too. NO ORGANIC S— for me!
if i pee on a repulican…will he grow greener?