LOL!

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/foliage/msg1011014016876.html?1

I had to post on there. What a riot? Who would admit to that?? LOL

Too funny!
('Chele, your page on GW is rather interesting. Touts GW highly.)

This message was edited Jun 11, 2005 9:07 AM

Ack!! It does?? I don't think I have ever edited anything other than the births of kids. I better to look. LOL Thanks!

Alright Darius, it is all better now. That shows you how much I use that website! I go in to add a birth but that is mostly all. We all know I can't change my favorites! LOL I did leave a few friends over there but most have come here. :)

: )

Too funny! Bill is big on "watering" the yard....guess I'll have to direct him to the ellyears. :-)))

It is, I think, the urine - Urea - . No kidding...I know a man who is a magnificent gardener and grower. He pees into gal. milk jugs and saves it on his back porch tightly covered. Periodically, when the contents are well...ahem...ripe...he sprays it on his large garden. I can attest that he grows the most incredible callas, anthuriums, brugs, vireyas...you name it!

Please...LOL...don't ask me for details, because that's all I know....I have SEEN the bottles! I would NOT want to be within 3 miles when he sprays!!!

I think I have tried about everything that I have read in the brug section on how to take care of them. But NO this is one thing I will not try unless 8ftbed does it and says it works wonders. Then, I'm not sure if I will try it then. ROFLMAO.

Linda

well, I'm a girl and ain't squatting on no flowers or nothing. One tiny breeze could make a leaf brush against me and I would jump ten feet. I'll stick with miracle grow til hubby decides to drink a beer and accomodate me.

People always told me don't let your animals pee on your plants. Well, we do things the "natural" away around here. Like Tammy, I'm not inclined to squat on my flowers either. But I have a 100 lb Samoyed who is my portable sprinkler system. He waters well. And surprisingly NOTHING has ever died because of his "visits". He "visits" quite a few of my plants daily, and my gardens are thriving.

We had this discussion in an Organic Growing seminar I attended. And naturally I had to ask why human waste was a bad thing, afterall where the septic lines are, you can grow the best and biggest plants. After a little thought, the speaker said that the septic system is like a big composter. And what is released thru any leaks in the septic lines is well broken down. You just don't want to use human fertilizer "fresh and at full strength" he said. LOL But I think that idea has been proven wrong, hasn't it?

Human urine is great stuff.

I use it all the time in my compost pile. It is an excellent source of readily available Nitrogen.

While I don't use solid human waste in my garden, I have had no problems with the use of urine at all. Unless the contributor has an infection or a disease, human urine is sterile when it leaves the body.

You can dilute it with three parts water and use it to water your plants too.

We have gotten so modernized that we have forgotten the basics in a lot of ways.

Give it some thought and then give it a try. You won't be sorry.

Aubrey

you do need to dilute it or it can burn your plant,
i have read 10:1 on other websites.

I've asked my Sweety and teenage boy to aim for just outside my flower beds, preferably in different areas. It seems to have helped a bunch with the deer and rabbits. A lot earier for them than it would be for my daughter and me

:)

Stacy

Are you guys kidding about the urine thing????

No, they aren't kidding. We've done it here too. I have mixed stale urine with 'tea' made from jimson weed and rhubarb leaves, added water and poured it on squash to kill squash bugs. It worked well and the plants were huge. Human urine is suppose to repel ants but I can't say it helped that much. But it does seem to deter deer, raccoons, etc. to some degree.

I thought it was a joke post which is why I posted it here but I reckon it was real...oops! Still kinda funny though. *embarrassed grin*

I am sorry to report that the undiluted urine from my 135 lb.great pyrenees and my 75 lb. Ridgeback dogs have killed the foliage and stems on many plants and have killed outright the plants in any container that has a top that is not high enough for them not to be able to aim into. The dogs being walked by people in my neighborhood are allowed to urinate on my plants which has also caused serious damage because they tend to urinate at the same place each time they visit. Plants die due to overfertilization from the nitrogen in the urine. If the urine is immediately diluted with water, the damage is miniimal; but who can sit all day and watch for dogs urinating on their plants. By the way, chemically made urea is one component in most commercial fertilizers. It is also used in many skin care products to soften the skin.

Here are some links discussing using urine to fertilize plants:

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb2000/950040080.Ag.r.html
http://www.geocities.com/impatients63/FreeUreaBasedFertilizer.htm
http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread/t-641206.html

Attract butterflies with urine:
http://www.butterflylure.com/

The butterfly info reminds me of a show Howie and I saw on National Geographic one time. This photographer went to the rain forest with some other people and the folks were not, to put it mildly, very hygienic when it came to camp. The guys chose this bare muddy area as a place to urinate and it was a muddy, stinky mess.

But the butterflies loved it.

And this photographer, willing as so many of us are to get THE great shot, got down on his belly in that pi$$y mud to get his pictures. ;)

I have done some conspicuous and weird things to get good shots, but I don't know if I could crawl in that mud, especially being out in the middle of nowhere with no way to clean off well!

LOL, Kimberly.... me, neither! (but it's a good story)

Luckily, I don't have a lot in the front yard that can be damaged by dogs urine out in the area where people walk their dogs. If I did, I would probably invest in one of those sprinkler sensors. Now that would be cool to watch, both for the dog and the owner that's letting the dog do it in your yard. Haahaa.

It isn't just the urine that can be a problem. It's everything else that a dog/animal leaves. You walk in it when you least expect it and it carries vermin etc that can be contracted by your dogs. Not everyone keeps their dogs wormed and vaccinated. I have two dogs and they do not leave their stuff in other peoples yards, or rather I make sure it's not left there.

Oops, maybe this wasn't the point, but it inspired a strong thought and it got away from me.

:^)))

HA!! This is quite an entertaining thread! Yes, there are spots around our mailboxes that have been "burned" by too much animal urine, but without this thread I never would have made the connection between pee and fertilizer! My hubby loves a good beer, so I'm sure I can put him to good use: he'll be glad not to have to bother going in the house. :)

My 6 yr old will be more than delighted when I tell him he CAN pee outside now!! LOL! Seriously...he had to go today when he was in the pool, so he asked if he could just go outside and I said no and made him go in. (mainly because he'll want to do it in the front yard too)

I'm with htop, my 75lb Lab killed a bunch of Astilbe and Blackeye Susans in a flower bed, probably because he too, always returns to the same spot.

killin' time at work and stumbling around in DG. I thought I heard my name mentioned!

I can vouch for the power of pee.
All that hard daily labor in the yard requires a lot of beer. Rather than traipsing stuff into the house (mad DW=bad) or getting cops called for taking a squirt in the bushes, I started keeping a milk jug beneath the fridge shelf. Then because of the bright lush green clumps in peoples yard that have a dog I started sloshing it on all my conifer seedlings and around the dawn redwood and austrian pine. When the neighbors grass is actually growing, a taller, thicker, greener semi circle even with the drip line of the Dawn Redwood is very apparent! Since then I slosh it around all the trees here and there. The two neighbors that regularly visit are trained to use the jug as well. Larry across the street keeps a jug of his own handy. I don't know if there's a difference in effect between sexes like there is with dogs. But hey... let me know if you're coming by and I'll have a funnel and tubeline ready.

HAHA...Female urine contains hormones that male urine doesn't. In saltwater toilets, this/these hormones build up calcium deposits in the tubes...really nasty job to clean them!!!

DH was peeing outside his office door. When asked to please direct it to the Bougainvilla 2' away, he stopped. What is it about asking?

LOL

Carol

LOL, Carol!... maybe being caught in the act??

Because the thrill is gone when you ask them to pee outside. The reverse psychology of it throws them off balance.

:^)))

bawahahahah..... Oh Carol - now with females on all our warships? The toilets are all flushed with saltwater!!

oh yeah - it's not reverse logic that throws me off balance.. I do just fine with my backward thinking most of the time. Nawwww, it probably has something to do with ensuring I never let a born.on.date. expire in the garage fridge. ;)


This message was edited Jun 24, 2005 5:42 PM

rotflol

:^))))))))))))))))))))))

See, I am from the deep south. I fell for the "snipe hunt", I must have stood blindfolded in those woods at least 20 minutes. My Brother in law convinced me that rubbing a potato on my windshield would repel rain (my wipers were broke) It didn't work worth a darn but it only took my 15 years to figure out what he thought was so funny. I just know that as soon as I squat someone will jump out and yell april fools!

Hey, I fell for the snipe hunt, and I was raised up north in the Chicago, IL area! ;)

No joke about pee and saltwater. But maybe it is pre menopausal women causing the most damage...not many on our naval ships!!! A good flush with vinegar helps.

Now...why am I talking about this? ;>)))))) lol

Did you do the "mating call" at your snipe hunt gardenwife? We told our kids that they had to wave a stick in the air and yell out moo every ten seconds as that was it's mating call. They fell for it. :D We have it on tape -- ahh the memories. Thankfully video cameras were not well known back when I did mine.

Did you know there really IS a snipe?

snipe, n.1. pl. snipe or snipes

1. Any of various long-billed shore birds of the genus Gallinago or Capella, related to the woodcocks and sandpipers, especially the common, widely distributed species G. gallinago or C. gallinago.

2. Any of various similar or related birds.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=snipe

Thats true... but it wasn't what DF had us expecting on a dark, cold, windy fall night in eastern NM when he gave us all a paper bag and we walked into this big empty field with waist tall grass blowing and rustling. I don't know what was running harder - imagination or my heart!


This message was edited Jun 26, 2005 2:05 AM

Here's what I was wondering: what does LMAO mean?? Here I am in my twenties and pretty computer savvy, but I don't know that one... :)

Danak,

That cannot be properly translated on this site. However, it's basically "laughing my posterior off".

:^)))

Oh, okay!! I asked my husband and that's what he guessed. :)

As my daughter puts it, LMAOis laughing my asteroid off.