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  • From: sanrico AT highdesert.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Pequins and Ashes
  • Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:20:22 -0400 (EDT)

Just a brief, totally not-constructive comment:
This sure beats the electronic bidets now being recalled for shorting out and
catching fire!
Sandy

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:10:58 -0700, Bill Jones wrote:

>
> eureka AT hctc.net wrote:
>
> >Although we don't have much winter we do have enough ash
> >with which to do something. I'm wondering what everyone
> >else does with their ash?
> >
> I found "Larry's" post about the composting urinal:
>
> "I want to brag about my new urinal/compost tea generator. Our Humanure
> Harvester composting privy, stationed near the garden, uses the regular
> 5-gallon bucket collector, serving my wife and me as well as visitors
> and oyster customers. I found that emptying chores are greatly reduced
> by providing a separate urinal for the guys in s secluded nearby bushy
> area. It's like peeing in the bushes, but there's a bucket. Actually,
> two buckets, a smaller 3-gallon perforated tub filled with a healthy mix
> of worm castings, a little rock phosphate powder and wood ashes, and
> some straw or wood chips for aeration. The urine percolates to the lower
> larger 5-gallon bucket. It is easy to lift out the small bucket, add
> some water, and use this balanced plant food to give seedlings a boost.
> Urine alone is not a balanced food source. The organic mix in the small
> receptacle is replaced about once a month. A plain urine bucket quickly
> becomes smelly, but the compost tea generator is practically odorless.
> Users appreciate the no-splash layer of straw sprinkled on top."
>
> My understanding is that it's really a two-phase process. Alkalinity
> helps in the second phase, the conversion from ammonia to nitrate. In
> the first phase, urea breaks down into ammonia. This is not helped by
> alkalinity, because they're totally different bacteria. And ammonia is
> lost from alkaline media, with a shortage of anions to hold it. So my
> idea is to have a top layer made of moss (even better against
> splashing). To keep it acidic and absorb ammonia, I think I might
> attach a small sack of monocalcium phosphate to the underside of the
> lid. And you can dump the whole thing into the compost when it's finished.
>
> Bill
> S. Oregon coast
>
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