Bury Pants round your farm to test soil fertility

[Zak33]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-41843852

and I quote....

The results were very interesting. We have quite a wet field here and obviously that has been starved of oxygen and the underpants were hardly touched.

"However, with our arable fields, which are cultivated heavily, they were eaten away, but we do cover them with a lot of muck. It was a success and a simple and cheap way of testing soil.

"The cotton is the important thing, rather than the underpants.

top bloke

[Phage]

Ah Britain.... makes me proud that we have news stories like this

[ik9000]

sorry, but that's all a bit pants

[sammyc]

"The cotton is the important thing, rather than the underpants.

Then why not use any old bit of cotton? One can't help but wonder if Mr Green has a vested interest in the sale of underpants..

[peterb]

Then why not use any old bit of cotton? One can't help but wonder if Mr Green has a vested interest in the sale of underpants..

Don’t get your knickers in a twist over this.