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"Miracle-Gro" and urine - a warning

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All,


A couple of comments on this thread.  

I have used urine to keep cats out of the garden.  Water it around the
perimeter of the garden (your territory) and it seems to work keeping
them out.  Lead poisoning also works on them . . . I'm told.  

I also use urine occasionally on the compost heap.  Seems to speed
things up.  Next door's dogs wee all over the lawn, and that comes up a
lovely dark green colour - lawn not dog.  


   **   HOWEVER JUST A WORD OF WARNING   **  


A couple of years ago there was a small outbreak of hepatitis in
Britain.  It was eventually traced back to strawberries grown in one of
the Mediterranean countries.  There they had used human urine as a sort
of fertilizer.  It had not been washed off by watering or whatever.  In
short into the food chain and bang two dozen or so people in real bad
shape in hospital.

As someone who has had hepatitis and been off work for six months as a
consequence, I tend to be sensitive to this sort of thing . . . 

Message: Basic cleanliness - wash your hands after using the toilet and
so on should be born in mind when using this stuff.  

Sterile?  Doubt it somehow.  


BTW - incubation time for hepatitis is 90 days - keep a diary if you wan
to know where you were when you were infected.  


Regards


Brian
 


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