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Re: Cat urine

In a message dated 97-01-28 00:55:56 EST, you write:

<< 
 Use it if you can stand the smell-- You won't get any little bugs  !!
 But I'd stir it real well first.  I have an outside planter-had petunias in
it.
 It was protected under the eaves and didn't get rain.  I wondered why there
 was a 3 foot section that had plants twice as big as the others.  When I
 began to check the soil--I knew by the smell who had been there.  My 3
 cats found a dry toidy when it was rainy.  Figured that much would kill
stuff
 but it just fertilized it. 
 Ammonia turns to nitrogen in the soil.  My dad was a farmer(and inventor-
 for you farmers on the list, he invented the hydraulic header control on
 combines, cotton and pea pickers).  He was the first in our county to
 experiment with anhydrous ammonia on corn and soybeans.
 Rosie
 AHS region 2   zone 5/6 in southern Indiana.
 
 
 
Rosie,

Thanks for easing my fear!  And the tidbit about your father is fantastic!  

I did an informal experiment of my own this past summer using urine.  Read an
article that human urine would dispose of powdery mildew on my Phlox.  So
every evening that my husband went outdoors to smoke his cigar, I had him *do
his thing* on the Pholx......no more powerdy mildew AND no more leaves!
<grin>

Thanks again!  I feel better already.

Karen Ernst MI zone5
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