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#1 EnigmaticBiker

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Posted 26 April 2008 - 05:58 PM

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

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

In Switzerland part of the taxes were paid in nitre.

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Posted 26 April 2008 - 10:40 PM

I'm notsurei would be too keen on the tasting of the manure heap to see how it was progressing! :o :o :o
Trying to do something very beautiful but very dangerous very safely....

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Posted 27 April 2008 - 02:09 PM

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

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.

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 09:19 PM

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 :wacko:

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 11:28 PM

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!
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#6 MDH

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Posted 30 April 2008 - 11:45 PM

Fireworks from dead corpses and urine? Amazing.

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Posted 01 May 2008 - 07:03 AM

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? :unsure:

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Posted 01 May 2008 - 09:13 AM

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 :rolleyes: Either that or it was filmed before the smoking ban! Enjoy.

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Posted 01 May 2008 - 11:06 AM

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 :rolleyes: 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.




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