SIR - Why all this fuss about organic growth? It has been nature's practice since the dawn of time and was still practiced by man early in my lifetime.

We had a brick-built double toilet over a cesspit which served both. It lasted several months, then the family's menfolk would gather to empty it with galvanised hand-bowls on long handles and a wheelbarrow to distribute the cesspit's contents over a huge vegetable patch at the rear.

It was allowed to drain, sprinkled with lime and deeply dug. These people never bought vegetables, and you will not find today a new potato that tasted like the ones they grew, they were super.

Part way through the operation, each man received a steaming hot mug of tea and a piece of currant cake, the cake was in paperbags and held from the outside the bag being peeled back over the hand. Bacteria? What's that? All these men lived to a ripe old age. Prince Charles is right get back to nature!

S G T BEARD, Malvern.