Closing the loop. Close your nutrient cycle!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In this video I explain a simple way to close the nutrient loop, at least partially, virtually free.
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We have a auto oil funnel. Allows the ladies to make contributions easily too.
Willlowsare doing great !
Appreciate your candor!
Bloody love your videos Andy. Always simple ideas which are easy to implement, and you're a brilliant, natural speaker!! Cheers for all the content. It's inspirational 👍
Thank you so much!
Your willows are looking beautiful!
Thank you!
I pee on the border of my garden. Especially morning pee. It keeps the deer and critters out! Close the loop!
A direct delivery system, ehi.
I heartily recommend 4 litre Milk bottles - the top is a good size for me (lets not go further in this element) then using the watering can outside. Great video thanks, subbed.
I use them camping for the same unmentioned reason. I agree they're a good solution in that sense.
lol..agreed
I'm in an arid climate. I pee in bottles, and put one litre in a five litre watering can, so smell isn't a problem, you wouldn't even know. Outside of the can stays clean! I also have a lid from a liquid fertiliser container that you attach to the hose and it sprays a diluted mixture of whatever is in the container. I used that a lot when we moved to a yard with lifeless soil (sand!), all over the yard in general. It helped a lot I believe, and the Meat Ants, which are usually very defensive and bite other people that come to the yard, don't bite me!
My father had one of those doser attachments, years ago.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture They're very handy, and these are on 'disposable' containers! Better off in the shed I think.
lol. I’ve been doing this for years too
Tried it some weeks this spring, was wondering why the odour lingered after emptying and rincing the bottle I used. Now I know :)
Own your waste! When I walk outside with my metal watering can all the trees and plants yell out: “Me! Me. Give it to me!” It is so nice to be desired. Poop in a bucket that’s ¼ full of wood chips. Then cover your deposit with a scoop of biochar and then more wood chips. Dump on compost piles under trees you coppice/pollard in a rotation to make bio-char. Use new incredibly fast-growing hybrid popular trees. Keep it totally separate from food or forage production areas until you make it into biochar and then spread it liberally everywhere. Own your waste!
I have read that aging the urine better converts it to plant-available nitrites. Given enough contributors the storage, dilution and distribution system could be scaled up with readily available agricultural equipment (developed for the poisons they so love).
I have the same problem flushing toilets. I use thunder buckets and while it's more work it's better than loosing the waste lol
Yes such a waste to flush it away in sewerage when plants are crying out for fertiliser.
I pee into a 2L plastic bottle with cap, so any odour is contained, then once a day use the kitchen sink greywater to dilute it in a 10L bucket, about 1:4 water, then pour it on random trees in the garden.
Fantastic! I'm hoping to start on our greywater system soon.
I have a system for buckets and watering cans, used it since I was about 12 (54 now). Blue or White - water only, no additives, Green or Yellow - organic only, but water soluble fertilisers ok, Black or Red - detergents or other toxic chemicals. It saves potential mixups.
I always used red for anything toxic, but these days we don't have anything like that on site so it's not a concern. Yours is a very useful system.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture Yes, I don't use anything very toxic in a watering can anyway, but I do wash the car, disinfect things, wash other things, so I would use a red or black bucket for anything like that, anything you wouldn't want to ingest. Not that I'd really want to drink the pee or manure solutions that go in the green cans and buckets! I like know that anything blue is suitable for drinking water, or my aquariums, which is how it all started in the first place. Recently my wife, who has lived with me for 35 years, used a blue bucket when scrubbing the floor! Now I'll have to get a new one. I drew skull and crossbones all over the bucket, but I can't handle it, I might chuck it in the bin and get a new one of them too! 😁
I was doing it with some freshy transplanted comfrey and it killed half of them. I'm guessing it was too concentrated. The leaves didn't like it either when I toned it back. Is that from too much nitrogen or salt?
Too much wine?
@@ricos1497 Lol, is that a thing? That's possible.
I haven't heard anyone talk about the wine, but I've heard you need to dilute urine ten to one, not at all, and 20 to one, all by locals. I imagine it depends on how many plants it's distributed between, but my experience is undiluted it wrecks havoc on comfrey leaves.
However, I think diluting is a PITA
The likeliest explanation is that it's just too much nutrient for a small plant to cope with.
I used to have a piss bucket next to compost bin that would go into the compost. Now I just piss under a fruit tree.
Fantastic!
I’ve been doing this for years only I use a 5 gallon bucket and dilute it about 4 parts water to 1 part urine ! My wife refuses to participate 🤷🏻♂️ 😂
Even if you bought her a really fancy jug?
what about medications like synthroid .. fake hormones
@@allysonvollmer7223 i don't know about specific medications, I'd suggest doing a deep dive.