Does pee + sawdust = good compost, or compost at all?

Does pee + sawdust = good compost, or compost at all? Should I try to make compost from pee or just make piss jugs to dilute for fertilizer?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nitrates would be good for rotations but otherwise I dont know what you are trying to grow that would need that much nitrate. Similar things can be achieved by simply letting weeds run of the land for a season

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm trying to expand my planting space next spring and the native soil here is pretty much just sand, not worth anything. To that end, I am trying to build a huge compost heap which will decompose over the winter, and then I can start the new stuff with decent dirt. I am already including chicken shit and my own shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >and my own shit.
        I don't think you're supposed to use the shit of anyone or thing that eats other animals.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        don't use human shit, you'll end up with worms and bacterial gut infections

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine the smell
        Just use food waste and crop trim

        >shit
        Dude
        No

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pee will give you lots of N but no P or K. So it's like the empty calories of the plant food world. Best results would come from mixing it with compost or mulch to balance out the nutrients a little bit. Corn, potatoes, and lawn/golf course grass are heavy N users so they'd be the best uses for this stuff.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You'll make some nitre at least.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    just put everything on the compost and dont try to be "smart"

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We live on an equestrian property and have a daily supply of horse pee/poo and sawdust. Once it composts down it's incredible.

    Perfect texture for growing root veg but more demanding stuff still thrives in it too. My carrots, beetroot, and broccolini all do incredibly in it, and I've barely started experimenting.

    If you don't have horses (saw your comment on chickens, but we've noticed that fruit trees previously doing well have stopped producing very much since chicken yards were built around them), maybe you can buy some cow manure at the shops, or if you live out in the country drive past some livestock properties and see if anybody's selling bags of manure.

    Where we are (Australia) you can't drive one town over without passing at least 2-3 properties with bags for sale on the roadside.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Horse, sheep and any other grazer has great dung for tossing onto gardens. I don't know shit about gardening but i know that it works cuz my tomatoes grew real good this summer. Tasted bloody good in my sandwich.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You should apply piss to the soil in the late fall and early winter so it can go through the nitrogen cycle before spring planting.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    take half of sawdust
    turn to wood fire pellets
    collect ash
    piss in ash
    or dump ash in piss
    dump ash piss slurry into sawdust

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lightly season with Epsom salts. Enjoy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >ash
      This anon is correct, but you don't need to compost that. That would create Nitrogen fertilizer.
      Just search "urine ash fertilizer"

      You can also dilute the urine with water (10% urine, 90% water) and apply that solution directly.

      If you want th easiest option, just pee directly on your compost bin. I find Carbon sources (the browns) much easier to obtain, so I'm usually short on Nitrogen sources (the greens).

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it makes a good oxidizer

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    whats the best compost i can make from rotting cum jars?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      compost
      >green; fresh stuff. Clippings, weeds, kitchen scraps, manure
      >brown; old/dead stuff. Cardboard, paper, dead leaves, sawdust, straw
      >blue; water. Keep it moist. Not soaking wet. If it's not raining, add a bucket of water.

      Too green and it will start smoking or turn to sludge.

      Urea is an additive. Normally you age it before putting it on stuff because it's pretty rich and can kill some plants. Just piss directly at the base of lemon trees because they can handle it for some reason. Normally you keep it away from produce, but whatever, it's your own garden.

      Sawdust is a brown. Mix it with grass cuttings from your mower and kitchen scraps. 50/50 ratio or thereabouts is ideal.

      swamp water/witches brew
      basically just build a bigger cum jar out of a sealable 40 gallon drum, add some water, add your spoiled material and stir and seal. Add any other random organic garbage at your convenience and stir. Add water if your brew is too solid.
      Get some good anaerobic activity going. Give it at least a couple of months for the initial deposit to develop some character before use.
      I'd dilute the resulting brew and use it on anything away from the house and not intended for human consumption.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lol. You're gonna end up with a compost fire.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yes but you gotta add a bunch of leaves/grass clippings.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can check the Carbon to Nitrogen ratio of stuff in here. No need to be anal about it. Just keep it in mind.
    https://www.planetnatural.com/composting-101/making/c-n-ratio/

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