For more than 200 years, the Portuguese at the Royal Gardening Association (RHS) were the benefits of using compost and fertilizer in their flowers.
But so far, he has never been satisfied with the use of the pre -fertilizer created from their human waste.
This summer, the charity will open its first toilet ever in RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey in an attempt to raise awareness about environmentally friendly ways to manage human wastewater.
The toilet will be built in a new Green park is greenSpace outside the network will be used to teach gardening students the main skills in gardening and educating the audience on how to sustainable gardens and alleviate the effects of the climate crisis on plants.
The compost facility will be exclusively for use by students and employees.
Luis George, a RHS gardener engagement officer who will supervise teaching in the park, said that the “materials” deposited inside the toilet will spend 18 months in a container – “We went to one with a large capacity” – then there are six months on the “regular” fertilizer heap, before Its spread on ornamental plants as “improved soil”.
Currently, it is the only gardener that will be trusted in dealing with “human” and will be used only in treatable plants in the Green Skills Garden.
“We will be very careful, because we are a public park,” he said. “If we get to the point where we give up the fans of the material, I will present them to the other garden teams.”
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George is looking to make his own contributions – and his contributions – for good use in the soil: “I am really excited about that. It is a great recycling and it is a great source of organic materials that can feed the soil – but it also provides water and helps prevent wastewater spills to rivers, which is that It occurs due to the problems of our sewage system.
“This is one of the ways we can be more responsible for our waste and get something really useful than it. For me, it is irrational.”
Wesley started Experimental park in 1878With the idea of making “difficult plants grow successfully”. It is now a park in RHS and more than a million people visit it a year.
George said: “The pre -bath and the most green skills garden corresponds to that original spirit to experience and pay the limits of what we do in gardening.”
Dr. Chloe Sotklev, a RHS colleague, said that green skills include the first rainy garden in Wesley, which includes plants that can stand up to merge the water for several days, followed by dry periods.
This is part of an experiment to see how different cultivation plans can be designed and a flow of rain water storage containers, for example, to manage heavy rains across a garden. “We encourage visitors to be able to see the journey that the water takes through the gardens, so that people can start understanding how the gardens are used to slow the flow of water through the landscape.” “This is something that we have to do increasingly to try to increase the elasticity of heavy rains and reduce the risk of flooding in the future.”
