{"id":12215,"date":"2011-05-23T14:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2011-05-23T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:58:34","slug":"pee-fertilizer-for-tomato-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/pee-fertilizer-for-tomato-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Better Yield from your Tomato Plants? Pee on ’em…"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I missed this one originally, but researchers at Finland’s University of Kuopio published a paper in 2009 <\/a>showing\u00a0that a mixture of wood ash and human urine makes great fertilizer for your tomatoes… one more great excuse for peeing outside!<\/p>\n Popular Science<\/em> gave a run-down of the paper<\/a> published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry<\/em>. The authors didn’t stop with tomatoes, though… a few months later, they published similar findings on beets<\/a>.<\/p>\n OK, fess up… you peeing in the garden? How’s it working out for you…?<\/p>\n Image credit:<\/strong> Ajith_chatie at Flickr<\/a> under a Creative Commons license<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I missed this one originally, but researchers at Finland’s University of Kuopio published a paper in 2009 showing\u00a0that a mixture of wood ash and human urine makes great fertilizer for [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":12217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4946,844,19,23,4947],"yoast_head":"\n