Heard an interesting news item that, because of their experience with C-19, more people are going to keep an emergency store of food in the house. That's not a bad thing.
Hay is a member of a book club. They visit each others houses in turn for what is ostensibly a review of a book, but rapidly descends into a white wine drinking session. During the pandemic they've been meeting online via video conference. My idea is a men's book club where we all go out on our motorbikes - socially distancing, of course - while listening to an audiobook. I think it could catch on. We could make it safer by not listening to the audiobook.
I've been experimenting with urine as a weedkiller. Hay and her sister are keen on eco-friendliness, which I don't have an issue with, until it comes to weeds on our car parking area, which is comprised of scalpings and overhung by lots of trees, which naturally distribute their seeds all over the place. Keeping on top of the weeds without the aid of chemicals is a nightmare.
Now urine contains all the nutrients plants need (phosphates, nitrogen, etc), but you have to ensure you dilute it for it to have the desired effect. Undiluted, and applied in high dosage, it kills plants with kindness. We manage to collect about 3 litres of urine per 24 hours and I repeatedly soak the weeds on the car park on a daily basis, selecting a couple of square metres at a time. I wondered whether I'd end up with superweeds, but, bugger me, it actually works! Within a few days, the perennials turn black and wither. The fact there's been no rain for weeks adds to the efficacy. God help us though when it does rain, as the entire car parking area could ming like an open sewer.
A side effect of the urine hoarding is that we're using substantially less water to flush the toilet, only flushing now for No.2s, although we do have previous with humanure when we had the composting toilet.
Now urine contains all the nutrients plants need (phosphates, nitrogen, etc), but you have to ensure you dilute it for it to have the desired effect. Undiluted, and applied in high dosage, it kills plants with kindness. We manage to collect about 3 litres of urine per 24 hours and I repeatedly soak the weeds on the car park on a daily basis, selecting a couple of square metres at a time. I wondered whether I'd end up with superweeds, but, bugger me, it actually works! Within a few days, the perennials turn black and wither. The fact there's been no rain for weeks adds to the efficacy. God help us though when it does rain, as the entire car parking area could ming like an open sewer.
A side effect of the urine hoarding is that we're using substantially less water to flush the toilet, only flushing now for No.2s, although we do have previous with humanure when we had the composting toilet.
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