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?
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?
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
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.
>and my own shit.
I don't think you're supposed to use the shit of anyone or thing that eats other animals.
don't use human shit, you'll end up with worms and bacterial gut infections
Imagine the smell
Just use food waste and crop trim
>shit
Dude
No
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.
You'll make some nitre at least.
just put everything on the compost and dont try to be "smart"
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.
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.
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.
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
Lightly season with Epsom salts. Enjoy.
>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).
it makes a good oxidizer
whats the best compost i can make from rotting cum jars?
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.
Lol. You're gonna end up with a compost fire.
yes but you gotta add a bunch of leaves/grass clippings.
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/