I’m all for reusing where possible, and grey water is a big waste area, but I don’t think I could bring myself to organise the plot’s water requirements along the lines suggested by this book.
I found it in Foyles at lunchtime and it’s very comprehensive, even going to great lengths to explain the kind of urinals you can get for women so that they, too, can collect their liquid gold.
Regardless of the fact that foxes and cats probably urinate on a vegetable plot from time to time, and that urine is generally very clean and sterile, I don’t think I could enjoy my vegetables if they’d been fed this way. Neither could I feed them to my friends.
If you could, Liquid Gold: the Lore and Logic of using Urine to Grow Plants can be found on Amazon (£4.49) and second hand on AbeBooks (from £1.82).
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