Let's Use Urine In Growing Our Vegetables

The other day during our chat on WhatsApp, my eldest sister told me how she had recently resorted to using urine in curing her under nutrition leafy vegetables. She told me that despite having fed her leafy vegetables with many types of organic fertilizers, they were never prettier until she watered them with her diluted urine. She said her vegetables looked significantly healthier and prettier in about just two days or so. 

The idea of using urine as fertilizer is not something new to me. I had learned about it long ago from my mum. In fact, it was one of the most easily available fertilizers commonly used by people long before her time. It is just that I never wanted to accept it before. I scorned at the use of it and thought it was a most dirty and stinky way to fertilize plants, especially vegetables. I am sure many people share the same thought as me. Now, while we can accept using animal manures as fertilizers, why not urine? Are they not the same kind of thing after all? Wastes that are excreted from our ( human beings' or animals' ) bodies? 

Moreover, as a matter of fact, urine is clean in that it contains few bacterial or chemical contaminants when retrieved from a healthy source. Plus, it has an almost complete, easily-absorbed nutrient composition that boasts a good nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (N-P-K) ratio of 10:1:4, and more modest amounts of the trace elements that plants need to thrive. 

So, why not overcome our squeamishness about this great, bodily waste product? Let's start using it ( urine ) as a source of fertilizer in growing our vegetables today. It is cost-free, effective, safe, simple and organic! All we have got to do are to collect, store and dilute it in 10 parts of water ( to avoid nitrogen burns ) before watering it onto our vegetables ( my sister always dilute hers in just 3 parts of water and it works fine for her veggies so far ).

Happy trying! We would not be disappointed for sure!