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diapers anyone?

I took a large steel bowl (I'm sure my wife would kill me if she knew) and put in the hydro-gel from 2 yellow'ed diapers.
Then I filled it with about a 1/2 gallon of filtered water and mixed it up until it was about the consistency of apple sauce.

Next I took a large tote and started mixing about 5 gallons of DRY soil mix. Then I added the the hydro-gel to the the soil and mixed it all up. Its crazy how much volume it adds to the soil.
 
I would hate for those peppers to end up doing very well knowing that when you bite into that pepper you are actually eating your child's urine/feces. Very interesting thread! I'll be planting dirty diapers in mass if this turns out to work lol
 
spicy_echo said:
I would hate for those peppers to end up doing very well knowing that when you bite into that pepper you are actually eating your child's urine/feces. Very interesting thread! I'll be planting dirty diapers in mass if this turns out to work lol
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I rather have my kids urin in there than that of some random cow / pig / horse / who also might get healthy doses of medicine /hormones or antibiotics
 
Just to be clear, I didn't use brown diapers only yellow. Not that I'm agents it, but "humanure" would have to compost for quite a while before I would consider using it for anything edible. Just my personal preference.

Urin on the other hand, not that big of a deal. And I know whats up with my kids health and I dont have any concerns. Its not like Kelp, Fish, Worm castings, Manure, are more sanitary ;)
 
Besides ; human urine is sterile, whereas with brown diapers you might get into all kinds of e-coli kind of things

Btw: I lucked out today, finding an older bag of undersized diapers... 6 of those rendered a total of approx 5 liters of the polymer. Those will be used for the chile's, whereas the yellow diapers will go into my garden...

Best of luck
Al
 
I get like 20 npk'd of those a day and some dark ones.

Lmk and I can start shipping them ASAP before they start piling up. Your choice of dark or regular. :D

,Vegas
 
Vegas_Chili said:
I get like 20 npk'd of those a day and some dark ones.

Lmk and I can start shipping them ASAP before they start piling up. Your choice of dark or regular. :D

,Vegas
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would a self addressed envelope be sufficient, or would you like to see moneys involved in this kind of transaction? :-)



... we might as well do a swap ... I have a bag full of yellowish toe-nail clippings from my long gone great-grandfather ...high in funghi ...


anybody ?

:D





on a slightly more serious note ...

here is what 6 virgin-diapers produced:

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... probably about 1,5 gal. of gel ... with the "going rate" of 5-10% in the mix, this should be enough to improve/aeriate some 20 gal. of soil for upbotting...


again, I am collecting the yellow ones to be used in our 800sf veggie garden (we are in autumn here, so i might till the gel in next month or so) - i guess 2 - 3 full 5gal. buckets should do the trick ...

cheers,
Al "putting phlegm in my garden" B.
 
UPDATE:

this is the expanded content of 2 or 3 diapers ...




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I later mixed the soil up with the hydrogel ... but its really interesting - the line is 5+ yards

and we will be planting rocket (ruccula) later on ... so stay tuned for further updates ...

cheers
al
 
Al-from-Chile said:
and also in very wet zones - as it absorbs a lot of water that would otherwise just run off leading to erosion ...

its a pretty good buffer - no doubt about it!

cheers
al
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Yes this could help with permaculture in over used parts of the world like the Midle East, Africa, or Aisia.
 
some (mild) update ...

here is what 1 weeks worth of yellow diapers look like ... thats right - 5 gals of expanded hydrogel !!!

my guess is that this would be enough to improve anywhere from 5 - 10 m2 (50 - 100ft2) of soil.


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and the best ... free of charge ... :party:


in a month or 2 I should have enough to bring our 100m2 vegetable patch up to speed ... and we are entering late fall, which is a good season to do so ...



coming up next:

GERM'ING pepper seeds in a (new) diaper ... :shh:

stay tuned ...

al
 
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