Piss in plant
Depending on which gardening circles you hang with, the concept of urine in the garden may already have surfaced as a discussion topic.
Urine will contain lots of things that plants like such as water and nitrates, which can act like fertilizers. But if you wee in the same place too much, you will build.
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It's probably OK for a tree, but I would not advise doing that for smaller plants, Female dogs, on the other hand, squat and piss it all out in one location, so they.
Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer - Scientific American
Does urinating on plants help or hurt them?
Description:Unless someone told you, you'd never know the beets were fertilized with human urine. Pradhan and Heinonen-Tanski, environmental scientists at the University of Kuopio in Finland, grew the beets as an experiment in sustainable fertilization. They nourished the root vegetables with a combination of urine and wood ash, which they found worked as well as traditional mineral fertilizer. Recycling urine as fertilizer could not only make agriculture and wastewater treatment more sustainable in industrialized countries, the researchers say, but also bolster food production and improve sanitation in developing countries. Urine is chock full of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, which are the nutrients plants need to thrive—and the main ingredients in common mineral fertilizers. There is, of course, a steady supply of this man-made plant food:
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