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Letter: You can have your milk and drink it

Published 19 June 2024

From Christopher Jessop, Marloes, Pembrokeshire, UK

James Wong needn’t choose between drinking milk or using it as a plant fertiliser. Drink the milk, then, a few hours later, you can be fertilising plants with it – possibly in a way that makes it easier for the minerals etc. to be assimilated, especially if your efflux is diluted with soft water (8 June, p 44).

Issue no. 3496 published 22 June 2024

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