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  • Tomatoes thrive on urine diet

    No strictly a tip, but interesting nevertheless:

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    Would this be allowed down your allotment?
    Excuse me, could we have an eel? You've got eels down your leg.

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    I think more and more people now use urine on their compost heap so it's getting to the plants in a roundabout way. I'm not very sure using it neat in the greenhouse would smell very nice after a few months.
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    • #3
      When I was a little lass my next door friend showed me their greenhouse with tomato plants in - it was a rarity then. She explained that her dad watered the plants with 'pee-water' (I think he added is to his water butt) and for years I thought she meant 'pea' and assumed that after cooking their peas they strained off the water for the toms. Dim or what?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Flummery View Post
        When I was a little lass my next door friend showed me their greenhouse with tomato plants in - it was a rarity then. She explained that her dad watered the plants with 'pee-water' (I think he added is to his water butt) and for years I thought she meant 'pea' and assumed that after cooking their peas they strained off the water for the toms. Dim or what?
        Oh! The innocence of youth
        I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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        • #5
          I think the neighbours round here might have something to say, if i started to squat over my bendy buckets in the green house, far too many full moons in the month

          All jokes aside, I can remember my mum telling me, when she was little my grandma going to the sewage farm down the road for tomatoes, when you think about it, we do eat a lot of tomatoes!!!!
          Last edited by ginger ninger; 11-09-2009, 04:36 PM.

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          • #6
            Does it matter if it's on a Saturday after a good Friday night?

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            • #7
              I think they are taking the p**s
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              If a plum tomato breaks the law when it’s young
              Would it’s criminal past ketchup with it later?

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              • #8
                Arrrr, Friday night in Leeds, I've not done that for yonks.

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                • #9
                  My FIL always you'st to go down to the sewage farm for some bags of 'coke' (treated end product). Swore it was the best thing for his tomatoes.
                  I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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                  • #10
                    Wot Terrier said. I have a special bucket in my veggie plot and always use it when I'm down there (my thumbs are too small so cant reach the dalek direct), and all other visitors are encouraged to do the same.
                    It gets onto my plot eventually, in a less potent form perhaps, but its certainly there.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by mrdinkle View Post
                      No strictly a tip, but interesting nevertheless:

                      Agricultural and Biofuel News:

                      Would this be allowed down your allotment?

                      You do realize you are going to have to change your username to Mrtinkle now
                      Thought For The Day
                      If a plum tomato breaks the law when it’s young
                      Would it’s criminal past ketchup with it later?

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                      • #12
                        I use urine on any gross feeder plant, not just on the compost heap, and I have always assumed that it would work well on any nitrogen fixers too, although I don't think I have tried it. ( Is this how "peas" got their name ? ! ) Ammonia, or to be more precise urea, is only one step away from pure nitrogen, isn't it ?
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                        • #13
                          weeing on tomatoes!

                          this has to be tried next year!

                          Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of...Human Urine? | Popular Science
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                          • #14
                            I've heard stories of people using urine - for instance, children being encouraged to pee in the garden. I have to say I'm not attracted to the idea of doing it myself (though it gives deeper meaning to Grow Your Own).

                            I believe it's sterile at the point of delivery, so direct application to the compost heap is probably best.
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                            • #15
                              I thought lots of people did this. I've used urine on my tomatoes for years, we're all still here.
                              Raspberries as well. Most things in fact.
                              Last edited by womble; 13-09-2009, 12:39 PM.
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