Posted on 09/27/2017 5:59:22 AM PDT by bgill
S. Korea and other “rice paddy” places have been doing it forever. “Honey pot” truck going from sewers to fields to help grow their food...
Went to high school there in the late 60s, but lived down the peninsula in Hayama.
I remember the arrival of a stack of honey buckets overnight would signal a pumper campaign was about to start...
There were many more rice paddies, and paddies that were turned into vegetable gardens, back then compared to today, and the nightsoil smell in the summer was sometimes oppressive.
Yeah and so do Mexicans and that’s how Americans are getting so many intestinal illnesses from foods grown in Mexico - human feces!!!
She put it in her flower beds, and low and behold, tucked in between the hydrangeas and the day lilies there was one lone tomato plant. It was so vigorous that it wasn't even staked.
We watched week after week and pretty soon mom announced that she had herself some tomatoes, planted unbeknownst to her, grown post-human-gullet.
Just in case anyone is wondering - they were the best tasting tomatoes EVER.
The not so funny George Lopez thinks his jokes about Mexicans wiping their butts on gringo produce is hilarious.
Go to any Lowe’s or Home Depot and you’ll find one fertilizer named “Milorganite.” It’s processed sludge from the Milwaukee Sewage treatment Plant. They’ve been selling it for well over 50 years. Chicago sends much of its processed sludge to southern Illinois where it’s sold to farmers to fertilize their plants.
“look at the Wiki entry for Milorganite”
I’ve always told my children that our nice green grass was thanks to the fine folks from Milwaukee!!!
The school I attended was called “YO-HI.” The second floor on one side was named “Nasugbu Elementary.” Then in 1959, the Navy took over and renamed everything.
The school was then named “Nile C. Kinnick” high school. After the Navy closed out Yokohama and gave back the housing areas and the rest of it, the Kinnick name was moved to Yokosuka.
We lived across the street from Area 2 housing in a western style house in the Sannotani neighborhood. The streetcar went by our house a dozen times a day.
I can still hear the ding-ding and the sound of the big wire scraper that connected the car to the electric power wire...
Milorganite?
I had a stunning garden where the old chicken coop had been since 1836.
OK - I trust Freepers to know stuff... I’ve been wondering for years if I can plant a garden in my back yard. The problem is that we don’t have sewers in my suburban neighborhood, we have septic tanks.
About half of my backyard is septic lines, and the other half is downhill from my neighbor’s septic lines...
I’ve never felt comfortable planting. I may go with buckets or raised beds next year.
What do you think?
That is a major problem that current technology does not address.
Find the closest horse stable and ask for a truckload of aged manure. My waste disposal company also gives away free compost. If yours does, get a truckload of that. I mix them 50-50. Outrageously healthy plants grow from it.
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