2021 CEE Love Pee on the Peonies
Urine Derived Fertilizer (UDF) is applied to a bed of peonies at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum at 1610 Washington Heights in Ann Arbor, MI on Wednesday April 28,2021.
This is a sub-project of a larger grant that included research on pharmaceuticals in urine, urine diverting toilets and the development of a patent around a freeze-thaw pasteurization method for urine.
Once the peonies bloom over the next month,U-M researchers hope to take sampling procedures intermittently to compare fertilized peony health to the others in the garden through qualitative analysis that study the amount of green, bud size, height and necrotic growth of the peonies.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2021 CEE Love Pee on the Peonies
Urine Derived Fertilizer (UDF) is applied to a bed of peonies at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum at 1610 Washington Heights in Ann Arbor, MI on Wednesday April 28,2021.
This is a sub-project of a larger grant that included research on pharmaceuticals in urine, urine diverting toilets and the development of a patent around a freeze-thaw pasteurization method for urine.
Once the peonies bloom over the next month,U-M researchers hope to take sampling procedures intermittently to compare fertilized peony health to the others in the garden through qualitative analysis that study the amount of green, bud size, height and necrotic growth of the peonies.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing