This has been talked about off and on in the Compost Forum. Still best to compost it first.

tj

It's good fertilizer, just don't do it too often as it contains some salt that will buildup if you do.

Really, if there was a way to conteract the salt I'd like to use it. I don't eat much salt anyhow . . . . but some might be from medication. I'm surprised about how many dirt cheap stuff there is that substitutes for outrageously expensive stuff. . . . old sweaters can hold moisture in the bottom of pots, or dog hair from the clipper, but that stuff gets tossed.

Yeah.
So look into Milorganite. About 12 bucks a bag and will last for ages.

The Stuff being dried up cleaned up poop. However, we are all told not to use it in family veggie gardens. Still not pee. The Milorganite is saltless, how do they do that?
I just want to know about using urine as a fertilizer. Is it safe? Does the medication go through? Just want to know.

How much urine can I add to gallon of water as a good fertilizer?

I use urine in compost and sometimes even diluted (about 1 part urine to 5 parts water or even 10 parts water) for ornamentals and fruit trees. I will soon begin using feces, too. Yuck, I know. But, I eat very little salt, oils/fats, or meat and take no meds. The compost from that will go to ornamentals and fruit trees that I will plant in the future.

I hope to buy a cheap disabled-person's-toilet thingie so I can put a 5 gal bucket uner it and keep it in the garage... I have no money or patience for a compost toilet. Not yet anyway. Wanna try this the cheap and easy way to begin with, so if I change my mind, I am not out of much of anything.

I got the book by Sandor Katz, "The Art of Fermentation". Excellent book, and he actually tounches on the subject of fermented wee wee. Apparently if you ferment it for awhile (not sure how long, I guess till it turns black), the plants are supposed to love it. I apply it over the fall/winter/early spring. A few caveats with fresh pee, be careful what you put fresh pee on, I killed my rose bush and two Manchurian bush apricot trees with it, but it was fresh and they were actively growing at the time. Some stuff loves it, like citrus, bananas, gardenias any acid loving plants seem to, bamboo, etc. Just don't use it on roses or bush apricots. Not sure if fermented would offend the plants or not, especially if it was applied over winter or during other dormancy.

I tried urine last year in the garden, and it seemed to work. Corn was the main crop I used it on. I diluted it, not with an exact ratio but anywhere from 1:4 to 1:10, and stopped applying it once the plant started producing fruit. I had no problem continuing to apply it, but out of respect for others involving the "yuck" factor, I wanted them to know no urine could have splashed on their food.

I've heard medications go into the urine and not to use it on the garden if you're on certain things like antibiotics, birth control, etc., but I've never seen actual studies on it. I imagine some medicines wouldn't be a problem, like aspirin since some people recommend crushing it to use on tomatoes.

Plants in general so seem to like urine. I have always on the cool leaked on plants and I have seen growth versus none. However not to much as it will burn up foilage and or roots.

If you are on medications you might want to wade through the package insert (available online) to see how the drug is metabolized or "cleared" by the body. Not all drugs go through the kidneys into the urine.

Human urine is more comparable to chemical fertilizers which contain Urea. Urine can contain extremely high dosages of nitrogen, or very little it's not static at all. Best to dilute it. Other things can be excreted through urine, which could be harmful to plants but it doesn't mean the plants themselves will utilize such things. even if the plants did utilize let's say some form of medication passed through the urine, it doesn't mean you would be consuming the medication again when you go to eat the harvested plant matter.

To me it's organic, some could argue that taking medications that aren't organic could pass through urine, and then be consumed by the plants and that it's not natural, I could argue that wildlife eat certain plants and fungi that are medicinal/poisonous that pass through urine and excrement and there for it's organic. Not sure where one draws the line. Nitrogen is Nitrogen to a plant, it doesn't really care which source it comes from but I wouldn't use urine simply because of the smell and there's better and cheaper ways of obtaining Nitrogen rather then saving up pee. Besides, it's bothersome, it would be like using water soluble MG every time you go to water which isn't very efficient for the grower.