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My your cabbages are large! What do you use to fertilize them?Posted Oct 12th 2007 11:54AM by Marisa McClellanFiled under: Science, VegetablesThis one falls into the category of food news that leaves me sort of flummoxed. I always heard that peeing on the lawn was a sure way to kill your ground cover, but researchers in Finland have discovered that you can substitute human urine for conventional forms of fertilizer to good effect. The cabbages that they grew that were fertilized with the urine seem to have produced higher yields than the ones fertilized by the mass market fertilizer. Some of you may be asking yourselves, "who cares if they're bigger, how do they taste?" The article states that "the crop's taste was at least as acceptable as that of the greens fertilized conventionally." The phrase "at least as acceptable" leaves me a little wary but I'd be up for trying one if it happened to come my way. Will this news make anyone change the way they fertilize their gardens next summer? Anyone up for a little science experiment?
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