BENEFITS OF USING URINE TO FERTILIZE YOUR FARM

Harvesting our fruits and vegetables, mowing the grasses and pruning deplete the nutrients from our soils.

Research shows that urinating on your garden plants can actually do your plants and property a lot of good. In fact, farmers and green thumbers alike have been using this practice for thousands of years, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t continue into the future.

BENEFITS OF USING URINE IN YOUR GARDEN

1) TO FERTILIZE YOUR PLANTS AND GARDEN

The urine which we usually regarded as useless waste product is actually a treasure trove of important soil nutrients. It contains nitrogen, an important element in the healthy growth of all plants. Urinating in your garden make nitrogen to work as a natural, free and effective fertilizer for the plants in your garden. Research showed that plants fertilized with human urine exhibited the fastest growth when compared to standard mineral fertilizer.

However overdosing your plants with nitrogen can also spell bad news for plants. When planning to use human urine as a fertilizer in your garden, dilute it to a ratio of 20:1, consisting of 20 parts water to one part urine. Do not spray the diluted urine on the plant directly but on the ground.

2) TO ENHANCE YOUR GARDEN GROWTH

The urine also contains a good amount of potassium and phosphorus along with nitrogen. These are referred to as NPK: the there major nutrients that form the building blocks of any flourishing garden.

3) TO KILL GARDEN WEEDS

While diluted urine can be used as fertilizer, too much of urine can also be harmful to the plants. This can easily be harnessed to kill off all unwanted weeds around your garden.

When too much nitrogen is added to garden plants, it turns the plants yellow and shrivel, this is refers to as “root burn.” This is one of the effective and rapid way to kill weeds when applied repeatedly. The salts in our urine is harmful to plants too, thereby making our urine very effective when it comes to wiping out weeds.

4) TO BOOST YOUR COMPOST

The uric acid present in your urine helps to boost the rate of decomposition of garden compost. The urine fasten decomposition proceas. This is because the human urine contains lots of nitrogen. Increases in nitrogen can boost soil microbiological activity, thereby enabling the compost to benefit from a healthy dose of urine when lacking in nitrogen. However, this must be balance out with plenty of carbon-rich additions to your compost.

5) IT SERVES AS NATURAL Antifungal SPRAY

The high uric acid content in your urine also served as natural antifungal agent. Plants diseases like fungal can be treated with diluting urine with 50 percent water and spray it directly on the affected foliage and stems.

6) USED TO DETER PESTS

Urine can also be use as deterrent for keeping pests like rabbits, foxes and even deer out of your garden. The pheromones in our urine deterred certain pest species, who steer clear when they catch the smell. However some animals are drawn to the smell of urine.