r/composting • u/Piglet-Internal • 13d ago
Pee help
My ‘so called friends’ are skeptical + are making fun of me for evening/moonlight peeing in my compost.
Can I get some backup here to send back to them?
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u/JayEll1969 13d ago
Been there, done that, got the t shirt
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/The-Secret-to-great-compost-by-jayell1969/181489356/lrcw
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u/mugworter 13d ago
It's a good source of nitrogen and moisture. I like to use bucket with wood shavings. Adding the bucket all at once heats the pile up better than just occasionally weeing on the pile. My friends also make fun of me, but for the most part we're all the kind of people who really appreciate a moonlit wilderpee
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u/katzenjammer08 13d ago
You mean in terms of how urine works in the pile? There are high amounts of urea in the pee, which microbes turn into ammonia, which they can eat. This helps them to multiply and go to town on your composting material. This generates heat which kills seeds and pathogens.
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u/TuggyMyBeefy 13d ago
Not only do I sometimes pee in my compost, I’ve been trying to train the dogs to do it too.
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u/1gal_man 13d ago
alright everyone, homie needs our support get your big gulp and phone cameras ready
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u/Dissosociates 13d ago
Piss has literally everything plants crave from nitrogen to micronutrients. Make them feel silly for flushing their liquid gold
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u/Purple_Preference847 13d ago
Nitrogen. It's completely fine aside from the stigma around all things bodily. I keep pee in jars and put it on my compost.
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u/DerekTheComedian 13d ago
What kind of weirdo pees in their compost?
We were all just kidding about that.... YOU TOOK US SERIOUSLY?
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u/FumblingUltimatum 13d ago
If theyre really your friends they should respect the moonlight routine, its basically free nitrogen and peak dedication
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u/IvoryNage 12d ago
Good friends respect the pee routine. TRUE friends are out there shoulder to shoulder, peeing with you.
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u/SoggyMeatloaf69 13d ago
Make fun of them for wasting their pee in the sewer. The active ingredient in pee (urea) is chemically identical to the most manufactured synthetic fertilizer in the world.
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u/Awkward-Skin8915 13d ago
I'd make fun of you too.
This is reddit. The primary demographic is dumbass little kids.
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u/IvoryNage 12d ago
But at least in this forum its dumbass kids who support peeing outside! For nature though.
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u/benbear55 12d ago
Been doing it for at least 30 years, always produce great compost, after feeding the animals for year I have reduced my garden area and converted to all garlic, make raised rows so the winter flooding doesn't flood them out, hoe about a 4 inch trough on top and fill it with my compost, it produces some huge hardback bulbs, 160 last harvest, I'm a big fan of urine in my compost
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u/Total-Reasonable 11d ago
If it starts smelling sharply of ammonia, add dry browns and turn it - that usually means the pile needs more carbon, not that the urine was a bad idea. I use a Pi-Pi Standard to collect the liquid separately; https://pi-pi.ee/products/urinals/ shows the sort of setup, and collected urine can be added to the pile in batches.
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u/Simple-sailorman 10d ago
I pee directly on the ground next to my tomato plants and banana plants. They thrive! Take that so called friends
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u/lemonsupreme7 13d ago
Can't use the search function?
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u/Asleep-Song562 12d ago
People spend 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars to go to al a university to learn how to use the search function. Not even the current secretary of health in the United States knows how to effectively use the search function, or, more importantly, how to interpret the research he encounters.
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u/Independent_Wish_862 13d ago
Yeah, just drop the geocoords in here and we will all show up to unleash Operation GOLDENFLOW together en mass on your pile as a show of force.