A research team from Finland confirmed the effectiveness of an inexpensive, organic and abundant fertilizer – human urine. In a study scheduled to be published in late October, researchers took human ...

My third-grader came home from school last week excited about a new project. Waving around a potted plant and an instruction sheet, he breathlessly told me he could earn some scholarship money by ...

KUOPIO, Finland, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Finnish scientists have discovered an inexpensive, abundantly available, effective and undeniably organic crop fertilizer: human urine. Although urine has been used as ...

Talk about your high yuck factor. Researchers in Finland have just published results of a study showing that farmers can substitute human urine for conventional fertilizer and get a notable increase ...

EAST TEXAS - I’ve heard from a couple of gardeners in the last few days about how their vegetables are growing after the freeze. For both, their cabbage was doing very well. Cabbage is an excellent ...

Despite the 'yuk!' factor, urine from healthy individuals is virtually sterile, free of bacteria or viruses. Naturally rich in nitrogen and other nutrients, urine has been used as fertilizer since ...

Cabbage is a wonderful cool-season vegetable with many uses. Perhaps it's my bit of German genetics, but I love it raw or cooked, especially with pork. Just remember that cabbage requires cool I ...