{"id":126689,"date":"2022-05-13T22:55:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pee-for-the-peonies-researchers-say-urine-fertilizers-encourage-blooms-and-theres-never-a-shortage\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T23:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:13:46","slug":"pee-for-the-peonies-researchers-say-urine-fertilizers-encourage-blooms-and-theres-never-a-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pee-for-the-peonies-researchers-say-urine-fertilizers-encourage-blooms-and-theres-never-a-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pee for the peonies\u2019: researchers say urine fertilizers encourage blooms \u2013 and there\u2019s never a shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBut environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista Wigginton ask garden visitors not to drop their drawersA pair of University of Michigan researchers are putting the \u201cpee\u201d in peony. Rather, they\u2019re putting pee on the vivid spring blooms.Environmental engineering professors Nancy Love and Krista Wigginton are regular visitors to the Ann Arbor school\u2019s Nichols arboretum, where they have been applying urine-based fertilizer to the heirloom peony beds ahead of the flowers\u2019 annual spring bloom. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…\u2018Pee for the peonies\u2019: researchers say urine fertilizers encourage blooms \u2013 and there\u2019s never a shortage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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