Fertiliser Help

[Rashid]

I hope this is not a stupid question, but is it alrigt to use my own feces as a fertiliser.
And also is it a bad smell

[podshell]

Originally posted by Rashid
I hope this is not a stupid question, but is it alrigt to use my own feces as a fertiliser.
And also is it a bad smell i think in the old days human waste used to be pelletted and used as fertiliser,also ive heard somewhere that there us a system of medicine using your own urine,you choose the herbs that help the condition you have and plant a herb garden you then use your own urine to fertilise them,there must be an art to this of course because of the acidity of urine,(eg peas dont like pee.)

[Neil Bromhall]

I'm not sure that raw sewage is a good thing to spread around your garden. I have noticed that slugs eat dog exrement but I'm not sure what will tackle human waste.
When I was filming on Tebetan Plateau, it was fairly basic location and had an outside loo. It was minus 27 degess so you did not linger. In the loo was a plank with a hole where you positioned ones bot and did the business. Below lived the pigs. They ate the deposit and later made a deposit of their own. It was the pig dung that was spread on the fields and not the human dung. Maybe the Tebetans know something that we don't and therefore I would not suggest spreading your own dung in your garden.
Best wishes
Neil

[Palustris]

'Night soil' was often used as a fertiliser. In our garden we found the concrete base of the old outdoor toilet. It had no drains, but the marks of the bucket were still visible. The contents would have been either added to the 'midden' or buried somewhere on the land.
The practice was stopped because certain diseases are transferred from human to human through contact with faesces. I am thinking here of cholera and polio especially.
We used to buy and use sterilised material from our local sewerage treatment plant, but I have to say that the smell even then was strong and we always got a huge crop of tomatoes growing from it. (Tomato seeds are desigened to germinate better after passing through the gut of a primate.)
Urine is a different matter, it is already sterile, but human is very strong and should really be best used as a compost heap accellerant.
Final point, human urine can be used as a mole deterrent too.

[podshell]

i dont think it would be wise to use pig manure either really,Cow manure seems to be the best option and it is believed to have purifying qualities by Hindus.

It suprised me that slugs ate dog faeces but i have seen them eating it and they treat it like a feast,i thought it strange.