Operation Manky Garden
Can you, I asked in the name of SCIENCE, grow a tomato crop, from poos derived from an all-tomato diet?

Despite two years of trying, an ASBO, the disgust of those I hold dear and Nutter-of-the-Week recognition from this fine website, the answer is a sound NO.

I have resisted the temptation to repeat this experiment with peaches, but have found - through carefully recorded experimentation - that beetroot makes your piss purple.

If you are not expecting purple piss, it can also make you think you are dying of kidney failure.

Don't do it kids!
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:48, 3 replies)

Yes.
Years ago, one hot summer, I was temping at a water works office - very dull filing and shit like that. Outside the window was a flat piece of ground with a multitude of tomato plants growing, fruit ripening on the ground (they obviously weren't tied up on stakes), glistening in the balmy sunshine.

I asked why someone would plant them there, and was told no-one had - they'd just had a sewage overflow earlier in the year onto that ground and even after it had been ruthlessly cleaned, a lot of undigested tomato pips managed to germinate and grow.

And no, I never tried one. I don't like tomatoes.
(vertigo, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:25, closed)

I agree with vertigo...
it is possible. My parents bought a place in France to renovate. In the times before we had kitchen/bedroom/bathroom we had a caravan with a chemical toilet. We would dig a latrine at the bottom of the field and empty the waste into it before covering it over again. One summer at one of the latrine sites there was a crop of tomato plants. My father still thinks they were some of the best tomatoes he has ever tasted.
( sudo is bored, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 13:07, closed)

Yes, I've seen it done, in industrial proportions
on the sewage filter beds that were near my home when I was a kid.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 6:54, closed)