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| My father had a rhubarb plant. It is over 30 years old. Every year I put a bag of composted manure on it and it did OK. Then I remembered going to a cottage and noticing huge rhubarb on a farm just I entered a small town, Burn River. One day I stopped and jumped the fence to take a close look. The rhubarb was enormous, leaves like umbrellas and stalks as big as my arm. I wondered what variety it was. Got back in my car and saw it. The farm was on a slope. The rhubarb was on the low side of the barn so all the urine from the animals fed the rhubarb. So I collected my (male) urine and tried it on dad's rhubarb patch, it exploded to twice the size, huge leaves and stalks. And it is much cheaper than buying a bag of manure. |
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- Posted by Donna.in.Sask 2b (My Page) on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 22:36
| Good to know! (I won't be telling the husband though, lol). |
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- Posted by russ_brown z6 ON CA (My Page) on Mon, Jun 16, 14 at 20:35
| It continues to grow, incredible. BTW as a scientist I was looking through a NASA handbook and found male human urine is safe and sterile unless there is a urinary infection. NASA needed to know how safe it would be on a space mission. There is a Finish study which showed that urine mixed with wood ash used on tomatoes outgrew untreated and treated with commercial fertilizer and, the price is right. |
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- Posted by melikeeatplants 9b (San Jose) (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 14 at 11:49
| I use all my urine at home for my plants. I just pee in the water can and dilute it (10-20 parts water, 1 part urine) and water over plants. It's a weak fertilizer, so you can do it more often than typical fertilizing. |
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