r/composting • u/culinarilycurious • Feb 01 '26
Pisspost Peeing on compost
Are people serious about peeing on their compost? I really can’t tell if it’s a joke or not and if it helps I will do it
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u/WorriedConfusion9414 Feb 01 '26
Currently peeing on compost as I type
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u/gadgetgrave Feb 01 '26
I’m peeing on your compost right now too!!!
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u/Actually_Im_a_Broom Feb 01 '26
I too choose this man’s compost.
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u/Priority_Bright Feb 01 '26
But who's peeing in your compost? Shall I pee on it and assign my backup urination partner to my pile?
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u/gadgetgrave Feb 01 '26
If your spouse doesn’t want it, send it my way! 1900 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. ATTN: Melania
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u/Sublime-Prime Feb 01 '26
Seems everything now is gold plated at the Whitehouse so a golden shower would just blend in .
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u/honey-12 Feb 01 '26
It took me a few weeks to convince my husband to piss in the compost tumbler. He finally did, and he was super giddy about it after.
Be free friend.
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u/BetsyMarks Feb 01 '26
Wait. There’s actually a ‘compost tumbler’? My son looked at me like I had had a stroke
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u/fgreen68 Feb 01 '26
There has to be at least 100 different types of "composters". I've seen tumblers on a stand and one that you actually kick around on the ground.
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u/allaboutmojitos Feb 01 '26
My husband will sometimes come into the house, passing the bathroom, to ask if my compost needs to be pissed on. I’m always happy to make his day
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u/Individual_Start8634 Feb 01 '26
Totaly serious.
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u/jsbass89 Feb 01 '26
Yep. Not a joke. It works. Lot of nitrogen in that pee. Really makes the puke heat up.
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u/Old_Belt_5 Feb 01 '26
Puke is hot enough.
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u/jsbass89 Feb 01 '26
Was backpacking once and our friend got super dehydrated and sick.... They're fine now. We found her sitting on the hillside looking really tired and really sad. She had thrown up..... My favorite part was she made sure to dig a hole at least 6 inches deep and we found her sad and scooping her vomit into the hole.
Again she's fine now. But honestly making sure to bury the vomit might be the funniest memory. She was basically ready to start crying cause I mean. Throwing up in the back country obviously scary. But her sad voice going "leave no trace guys"
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u/Mid-Pri6170 Feb 01 '26
best thing is the smell of it, if the public are nearby those losers soon go away.
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u/DeaneTR Feb 01 '26
Last Summer I had two piles of lawn clippings mixed with the sod I dug up for gardening beds. In one pile I regularly poured bottles of pee many times a week and in the other pile I didn't pour in any pee. Fast forward to last week when I dug up those piles and spread them out level to make room for new piles. I can confirm that the pile with lots of pee poured on it regularly was much more thoroughly digested with black fertile soil than the pile with no pee.
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u/HighColdDesert Feb 01 '26
Yes we are serious, and yes we pee on it (50% of us using a can or watering can to do so), and yes we are joking about it too!
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u/Lokified Feb 01 '26
I had a plant that was yellowing, and someone recommended diluted pee. The plant was green again within the week.
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u/MistressLyda Feb 01 '26
Not in the winter, it would turn into a frozen yellow block.
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u/akbeasttt Feb 01 '26
You weren’t peeing on it enough
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u/dm_me_kittens Feb 01 '26
Nah, he has to up his sodium intake. That way, it can't freeze.
Or make his urine 50 proof.
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u/FuckTheMods5 Feb 01 '26
Nah i dump almost a gallon a day on it from my composting toilet. It just runs across the top tillit finds a crack to fall into when it's frozen lol
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u/august_engelhardt Feb 01 '26
You can take it even further and compost all your feces . Im serious. www.humanurehandbook.com
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u/Trash_CAn_TugLife Feb 01 '26
I pee pee all over the yard. Free fertilizer and nothing beats the wind or a slight breeze. Nothing.
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u/dresserisland Feb 01 '26
I've been a furtive outdoor night-whizzer for years.
Gives a new meaning to the term "wee hours".
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u/itenginerd Feb 01 '26
I was wondering the same, so I asked a friend of mine's kid last night cuz he's into compost. He was like 'yeah, I pee on mine every once in a while. It adds nitrogen.'. Should have seen the look on his mother's face.....
It's a real thing apparently.
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u/kalamity_kurt Feb 01 '26
Im just a guy with too many piles and not enough piss. If you’re not gonna piss on your own, at least piss on mine?
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u/Imaginary-Patient275 Feb 01 '26
No joke about it, rich in nitrogen. I place my urine in my designated pee cup, and then take it outside. I don’t want to be accused of exposure outside taking a leak.
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u/jazzhandler Feb 01 '26
It doesn’t necessarily need to be fresh from the tap; a jar next to the toilet can help keep things classy in the back yard.
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u/Jehu_McSpooran Feb 01 '26
Oh it's real. I keep a 3L milk bottle next to the loo and fill that up for when I put some more greens and browns in the bin. It helps with getting the bacteria spread over everything. I'm also designing a new bin setup with forced air blowers underneath. I'm tossing up wheather or not to add a venturi jet in there that will hook up to a pee barrel and introduce a flow of humid, ammonia rich air from underneath or to have a dripper system that drips urine evenly and slowly over the top of the pile.
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u/tlbs101 Feb 01 '26
It’s real. I pee on my piles regularly (in warmer weather). Especially since my piles are a ways from the house, it’s just more convenient than walking all the way back to the house — saves time.
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u/badsammajamma Feb 01 '26
I could swear I've hear people say not to use lawn clippings in compost if they're from an area where your dogs pee. Am I imagining that, or is that actually different somehow?
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u/Nethenael Feb 01 '26
I winter lack of green but still adding junk mail and card so piss is the 25% nitrogen it needs 🤷
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u/MundaneAd1685 Feb 02 '26
Wait so yall arent peeing in water bottles in your house and then throwing that in the compost? They need to make a compost pee-er for women.
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u/KaleidoscopeRed Feb 02 '26
My school has a compost pile. I suggest you avoid those ones, too many questions are asked…
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u/Moonhippie69 🪱🌱 Feb 03 '26
Yeah I have a jug that just froze. I need to thaw out in fact. Thanks for the reminder
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u/Bugsy_Goblin Feb 01 '26
Yes. Urine is a nice well-balanced snack for compost piles.
Not only are you adding in water, but urine is rich in nitrogen which helps wake up the bacteria and fungi that do all the heavy lifting in the breakdown process. Nitrogen is also one of the top 3 big nutrients for plants.
Peeing on compost isn't a funny meme we like to spam, its a beneficial and welcome respite for a tired compost pile.