Caulis are cut-price after crop bonanza

Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower after warm weather led to bumper crops.

Farmer s have been producing up to 100 per cent more florets than usual.

Tesco, who are buying 220,000 extra cauliflowers this month, cut the price from £1 to 79p last week.

Morrisons dropped the cost to 75p while Asda cut it from 95p to 70p. Sales are up 12 per cent but shops are struggling to clear stock.

The big harvest comes after courgette and lettuce shortages earlier this year when southern Spain was hit by snow and wet weather.