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  • From: "Evan Davies" <evangardener@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: home made fertilizer
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:51:58 +1100





The reason there is no smell using the sawdust method to store urine, is that sawdust, or wood shavings(sawdust will absorb the liquid a lot quicker)is a large proportion carbon, whilst urine is very high in water soluble nitrogen. and as any good composter knows, you need a balance of 25 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen to return this matterial to soil food as quick as possible. If the nitrogen is used to balance the carbon then no nitrogen loss through ammonia will occur, therefore no bad smells. Did you know that some monks will drink their urine in the morning to slow their metabolism, which helps them to meditate.

Evan
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