Chicks don't dig you, do they?

Allen456, it keeps deer away too.

Chicks who don't 'get' one's resource management efforts may not make it as far as the garden shed in the first place. The cool ones who don't get weeded out will have a higher tolerance.

Being visionary can have its price, though.

Lol! Sometimes its a necessity!

At night sometimes I use a medical grade pee bottle (my grandfather had to use them before he was on the Foley Catheter(These are unused BTW)). But anyways, I have some knee and nerve pain with a touch of arthritis in my knees. So at night when I have to go it is sometimes a nuisance and difficult. So I go in the bottle. Right back to bed. Empty in the morning. Not only does it save my knees it saves my water bill from toilet flushes and feeds my pile...hehehe TMI TMI TMI

"Sweet Thang" made me get rid of my pee bucket after she moved in. It didn't stink and I emptied and washed it daily. It just grossed her out. Oh well, my night leaks are wasted but I have a secret bucket in the barn! :)

Just buy a nice expensive porcelain bucket and call it a "chamber pot"...lol

Is there a reason to keep the urine sitting around? I pee into a 5 gal watering can, add some molasses an fish emulsion, dilute it 20:1 with tap water and use immediately, so I don't have to deal with the smell.

LOL!

The reason is, it's less work to use a sawdust bucket and empty it now and then, vs diluting and applying immediately every time you tinkle.

In my opinion adding pee did not increase the heat and only added more moisture cooling it down. I can't imagine some guy going out at night to pee on a pile. I say guy because a woman would not do that.

I was not being cute.
I am saving pee in a gallon jug, that is clearly marked
"DEER AWAY" in red marker.
I pour it into 3 different 5 gallon buckets in different spot to keep the deer out of my garden.
First time using 2 day old pee, I hope it stinks to high heaven. Now if it would stop tomato worms.

I use mine to add nitrogen and moisture. You think it would smell but it doesnt. I dont add it everyday only when I have a somewhat fresh looking pile and when its dry.

This thread is too funny. Im sure some shmarty pants will design a compost bin with a seat on it for maximum comfort...Lol

This thread give a whole new meaning to, "who peed in your corn flakes?" Assuming, of course, adding corn flakes to a compost pile was acceptable (because there's no way anybody would eat a bowl of urine soaked corn flakes!).

I'm married so chicks digging me isn't an issue - they don't. My wife will only use the bucket when we go camping. But at least she'll use it.

I've been dumping the bucket on dry woody piles. I've found I can get woody material to heat up with enough urine.

And leaves work much better than sawdust to control the odor.

"(because there's no way anybody would eat a bowl of urine soaked corn flakes!)"

That does happen, sick people of course. When I was in my 20's, a long time ago, around 1975, I witnessed it happen.

I thought it was a joke to start with. A friend of a friend said watch this! His girlfriend ate it.

Needless to say, I threw up, and never saw my friend or his friend again!

Is there a reason to keep the urine sitting around?

I have read at least one study that found chelated (aged in bottles) urine is more effective for crop production than fresh. I store mine in the two-liter plastic bottles.

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I tried peeing in a bucket. Didn't work for me. I prefer to go directly in the pile. Didn't have a problem with the smell. Take the dogs out so they can go and do so myself.

I don't pollute a gallon and a half of drinking water and I kind of like peeing outside.

I suppose there's a limerick in there somewhere.

to sense
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Dear blaze - already done. It's called a compost toilet. Also called a humanure toilet.
My own Sweet Thang would flip if I kept a bucket. Compost near the sink, piles outside, me making garlic sprays, etc, in the kitchen and keeping them in the fridge - yes. Pee bucket - no. But now and again I ask the partially resident son to add to the pile.

pee in a bucket

for my gardens benefit

odor i will endure

(okay, so it's haiku, not a limerick ;)

I keep an old coffee can near my back door. I'm a good neighbor and only use it after dark. It gets dumped on to the compost pile.

I hear that it helps. Me, I just like peeing outdoors :-)

@Allen456,

The 3rd line of your haiku has 6 syllables.

"All nits must be picked" has 5.....

dangit you're right....serves me right for haikuing so early in the morning

I would have been watering the garden, except we've been blessed with rain over the past few days.

Fresh pee doesn't have a perceptible odor. Even a few days old does, but the smell goes away in minutes. Have been getting a straw bale ready for planting with pouring several gallons of urine on the top, added a handleful of Milorganite. Thinks it's ready for tomatoes now.

Rosie

"Fresh pee doesn't have a perceptible odor."

Obviously, you don't frequent Men's public restrooms!

No kidding! And what about asparagus season?

I love it when you make me laugh.

If pee sits around for 24 hours, it develops ammonia.

Sprinkled on a pile, it would be "filtered" down through, not remain liquid to develop ammonia. If you are having odor, try less frequent "waterings". I don't know about the bucket of leaves. Seems the pee would gather at the bottom.

Are you completing this duty all through winter, too?

Nothing is lost in a sealed container. Storing in containers is much more effective than pouring on the compost pile all winter.

pnbrown wrote:
"I have read at least one study that found chelated (aged in bottles) urine is more effective for crop production than fresh."

I am curious about the chelation term. Was there some kind of lab analysis in that study that showed that some component(s) - presumably metals - were chelated to a greater extent after aging?

Pee would certainly change as bacteria went to work on it, and possibly by chemical changes alone even in a sterile container. I am interested in what exactly they thought was going on.

All I know is I am going to get caught with my P bucket, one of my ignorant neighbors is going to see me and report me. But there is just something freeing about peeing on my compost under a shiny moon and stars that's liberating....plus the compost loves it.

"But there is just something freeing about peeing on my compost under a shiny moon and stars that's liberating...."

...and you don't even have to aim!!

Yeah the neighbors...

My fence line is right under my chin so there ya go...

"Fresh pee doesn't have a perceptible odor."
Obviously, you don't frequent Men's public restrooms! Nope, don't spend any time there, but think the odor is from missed squirts. Agree completely that it'll stink if you eat asparagus.

Below is a link to a synopsis of a bunch of field trials of urine all over the world. The trials on grain in sweden are the ones I read about before. The aging of the urine isn't mentioned in this article but I am sure that they did age the urine in that trial. I'll keep looking for the actual abstract.

Here is a link that might be useful: don't piss it away

In the winter it gets dark here pretty early, so I just water the beds. The thought of a big chunk of frozen urine waiting for spring is just too much for even me.

My bucket in the shed is right next to my neighbors driveway. My lot is only 35 feet wide. Sometimes they are loading their trailer right on the other side of the wall of my shed. Sometimes I wait, but sometimes I can hit the side of the bucket at just the right angle to get an almost silent deosit. Its kind of an art?

Communing with the pile in the dark with the moonlight and stars overhead is a beautiful thing. Romantic almost. My prose doesn't do it justice like Forerunner, but it is a think of beauty none the less.

Lol!!