Gardeners at a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire are urging people to relieve themselves outdoors to help gardens grow greener.

A three-metre long "pee bale" has been installed at Wimpole Hall.

Head gardener Philip Whaites is urging his male colleagues to pee on the straw bale to activate the composting process on the estate's compost heap.

He said the "pee bale" is only in use out of visitor hours, since "we don't want to scare the public".

He said: "For eight weeks now, male members of our garden and estate teams have been using the outdoor straw bale when nature calls.

"The pee bale is excellent matter to add to our compost heap to stimulate the composting process; and with over 400 acres of gardens and parkland to utilise compost, we need all the help we can get.


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"There are obvious logistical benefits to limiting it to male members of the team, but also male pee is preferable to women's, as the male stuff is apparently less acidic."

By the end of the year, it was calculated that the 10 men from the 70-strong garden and estates team will make more 1,000 individual trips to the pee bale, contributing towards the compost for the estate.

The estate said it will have saved up to 30% of its daily water use by not having to flush the loo so many times.

Rosemary Hooper, Wimpole estate's in-house master composter, said: "Most people can compost in some way in their own gardens.

"Peeing on a compost heap activates the composting process, helps to produce a ready supply of lovely organic matter to add back to the garden.

"Adding a little pee just helps get it all going; it's totally safe and a bit of fun too." linky

Do NOT!!! pee on your grass plants! it will kill them

read something similar to this not long ago,
still dont think ill be trying it.....

Believe it or not I've already done the reading on this one.

Bottom line: urine can be useful because some male hormones stimulate plant growth HOWEVER there is so much variation in urine because of personal diet differences it is difficult to know and control for.

If you are going to experiment with piss, dilute and pH balance it or else it will kill your plants. I think 1:10 was the dilution ration I read, but you'll need to check.

Some people swear by it (pissing in the res) others say it's old wives bullshit.....and I had totally forgotten about it until I heard this story on the radio last night.....

GN

Being a diabetic Im constantly pissing.

Keep the coco wet eh?.............Not a problem

p&q

it does have nitrogen in it, but it will kill your plants.

i can remember not so many years ago, we had a warm and dry summer, we used a pub car parks as a raidio stand, the driver were peeing outside the cabs, the smell got so bad i had to stop using that stand, imagine that smell in my grow room.

Not sure that is true

I water piss down about 10 or 15 parts water to 1 part piss. All of the plants in my garden seem to do well, the runner beans especially like it. I think pure piss might kill certain plants but watered down I should think most plants would like it

i`ve always done it to get the compost heap going. I come from a long line of gardeners and my grandad told me about it.

Many years ago when me and Mrs JOM got into organic vegtable growing there was a guy on GW and other progs called Bob Flowerdue (no pun intended, similar spelling though),long pony tail chap, he used to swear by saving your pee and putting it on the compost as an activator.

So, we had a slight problem,

Our plot was a few miles from where we lived, the result was we (and some approved and or pissed guest's) would pee in a jug and pour the contents into a demi john, this would be transported in the car to pour on our muck heap......happy days .but did we drive carefully

JOM

I piss on the compost heap - actually I piss in bucket of runoff nutes and then pour that over the compost. Next spring I should have a lovely pile of compost to sift through ready for the new veggie season.

I can't imagine what it smells like in coco though....ewwww...

GN