Freshinfo | News | Vegetable sector mourns loss of British summer

The UK received just 60 per cent of the average 169 hours of sunshine normally experienced in August last month – the lowest light levels on record for August in 150 years. This has, unsurprisingly, not escaped notice within the vegetable industry.

In what insiders have described as a “bumpy ride”, the last three months in general have seen rainfall and cold nights throughout the country, with Lincolnshire suffering temperatures as low as 8°C at least three times in August and normally sunny Kent experiencing unseasonably low light levels.