Study Finds Tomatoes Thrive On Urine 21
An anonymous reader writes "Using human urine as a fertilizer produces bumper crops of tomatoes that are safe to eat, scientists have found. Their research was published last month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and may help cheaply boost crops in the developing world. From the article, 'Yields for plants fertilized with urine quadrupled and matched those of mineral-fertilized plants. The urine-fertilized tomatoes also contained more protein and were safe for human consumption.'"
Obligatory humour. (Score:2, Funny)
Now this is just taking the Piss...
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It's taking the piss and feeding it back to you after harvest.
Surprise? (Score:1)
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Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes!
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Urine contains ... salts that a plant needs.
Ummm, don't think so.
In the ancient world, spreading salt into the fields was one form of genocide.
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A few years ago, I helped clean up an abandoned house and while doing so, we found a very large tomato plant in the backyard.
We figured it had bloomed from tomato seeds from the construction workers' refuse. We ate a few of the fruits (they were good, albeit a bit small).
Later we found out the drain pipe had a leak just below that plant, making it obvious why it had grown so beautifully...
Oops! (Score:2)
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By pissing on the leaves and stalks, you probably did hurt the plants.
Roots, though, are different from leaves.
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Re:Urine is sterile (Score:5, Informative)
As for tomatoes, I've heard of urea fertilizers, but it's usually bad practice to put waste from humans or carnivores on crops because you can pass on E. Coli and various diseases that way.
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Urine is sterile... for about a minute before it attracts all sorts of bacteria
what to say when you drop a tomato (Score:1)
Donor card ? (Score:1)
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Urea is a common ingredient in chemical fertilizer. It comes in pelletized form. ~100lbs in 300 gallons of water makes a good liquid application.