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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Feeding via Irrigation
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:26:25 -0400

George Anna Clark wrote:
I've fertilized with urine through my drip system... the injector is
mounted after the pump (is that what you're talking about? not sure
about english terminology). I suspended the practice just cause I didn't
have enough urine to make it worthwhile, preferred to concentrate it in
a few rows and I couldn't do that without blowing out the hoses.

Some say it clogs up the drippers- I didn't have that problem - and thus
they suggest flushing well after use with straight water. I also pass
along the suggestion that one gave to pump it straight -i.e., have a
urine reservoir instead of a water reservoir, but that's not exactly
practical, at least not in my situation.

Anyway, I'm now collecting urine on a larger scale (i.e., more people)
and will start fertilizing the orange trees which have
...um-m-m..."micro-sprayers" (?) -looking forward to that... Also will
start doing same with innoculants and mycorrizas and all that good
stuff... (not at the farm at the moment, frankly can't remember what I
have on hand). And yes, same goes with aerated wormcompost tea (I use
aquarium bubbles, not the commercial tea makers).

Why don't you put the urine on a compost pile then extract tea from the pile
and put that around your crops?





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