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[EnigmaticBiker]

http://docsouth.unc....lt/leconte.html

I reckon it's easier to buy it that leach the compost heap

In Switzerland part of the taxes were paid in nitre.

[pyrotrev]

I'm notsurei would be too keen on the tasting of the manure heap to see how it was progressing!

[EnigmaticBiker]

I'm notsurei would be too keen on the tasting of the manure heap to see how it was progressing!

Bet that is an acquired taste.

I'm not surprised with the method, in 'ye olde chemistrie' it was probably common to taste and handle stuff to analyse it.

[dr thrust]

hmm looks quite simple to make, as long as you dont mind having a giant 15 ft dung heap in your back garden that you have to water with the finest "cesspool liquid" and turn over regularly for two years. i like pyro but would this be going to far?and how do you talk your other half around to the idea

[icarus]

other publications suggest that soil from grave yards has a high nitrogen content i,m too busy boiling gallons of urine on the kitchen stove to make some phosphorus . i,ll have to leave digging the privvy pit up until next week!

[MDH]

Fireworks from dead corpses and urine? Amazing.

[maxman]

other publications suggest that soil from grave yards has a high nitrogen content i,m too busy boiling gallons of urine on the kitchen stove to make some phosphorus . i,ll have to leave digging the privvy pit up until next week!

Icarus, Are you laying food on again in June?

[maxman]

Ok well here is a little lesson I uploaded for you all. Watch out 1.03 in to the clip just over his right shoulder for what looks like someone testing 1gram BP Either that or it was filmed before the smoking ban! Enjoy.

[EnigmaticBiker]

Ok well here is a little lesson I uploaded for you all. Watch out 1.03 in to the clip just over his right shoulder for what looks like someone testing 1gram BP Either that or it was filmed before the smoking ban! Enjoy.

Pity there isn't more of it.

Like other composting, digesting processes it's quite complex, involving a chain of different bacteria and their enzymes. Some of the bacteria capable of producing nitrates are amongst the earliest creatures on the planet.
I suspect that, as energy becomes more expensive, some of these old processes will be used again on an industrial scale.