Store of wisdom

LeTTUCeS, tomatoes, peppers and other salad ingredients are expensive out of season. Supermarkets are rationing them because of shortages caused by bad weather abroad, but we should ask why people want to buy this produce.

we should return to eating seasonal winter crops such as potatoes, carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, onions and, yes, as environment Secretary Therese Coffey suggested, turnips.

Apples can be stored over winter, while gluts of summer soft fruits can be made into jams or frozen.

eat home-produced food and help our farmers.

D. M. DEAMER, York. RATIONING fruit and vegetables? Just when I was going veggie to help save the planet.

ALAN ROBERTSON, North Walsham, Norfolk.