Visitors at this year's Chelsea Flower Show were asked by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to donate their unwanted underwear for its summer Grow Your Own campaign at Hampton Court Palace.
The clean unwanted bras, briefs and boxer shorts donated would be used in display of how to grow your own fruit and vegetables in unwanted underwear.
Nutrition Facts - Types of food
The types of food and how foods are commonly classified with examples of the characteristics of the food whether it is an energy yielder or body builder or protector.
The types of food and how foods are commonly classified with examples of the characteristics of the food whether it is an energy yielder or body builder or protector.
Georgie Webb, of the RHS, said that old undies could be used like hanging baskets where people have little space.
"Due to their conical shape, bras are ideal containers for turning into hanging baskets, and if you sew two together, you have what is best described as a 'hanging bra-sket'," the Telegraph quoted Webb as saying.
Organic Foods - 'Natural products'
Organic Foods are produced by the ‘natural method’, without the use of chemicals like pesticides, fertilizers or sewage sludge.
Organic Foods are produced by the ‘natural method’, without the use of chemicals like pesticides, fertilizers or sewage sludge.
"But the serious message behind the 'bra-skets' is that you do not need a lot of space or even a lot of money to start growing your own food - just a bit of imagination," Webb added.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown and civic organisation, including the National Trust, have also called for more people to grow their own food in order to improve healthy eating and tackle climate change by reducing food miles.
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