The sanitation department in Lusaka, Zambia, is turning urine into a fertiliser.
Urine contains elements which help plants grow:
- nitrogen
- phosphorus
- potassium
- all eight micronutrients needed for plant growth
Urine as a fertiliser
- mix 1 part urine with 3 parts water
- will not smell
- fresh urine is virtually sterile
- apply urine mix using a watering can (without a shower/shower head) to the roots of the plants not the leaves which will be eaten.
One person’s average urine output is enough to fertilise a garden of 280 square metres.
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Heard about this on radio 2 recently and lots of people use urine to fertilise their garden!
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Sara from farmingfriends
Comment by farmingfriends — December 29, 2009 @ 9:38 am