Lidl limits sales of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers

Lidl is the latest supermarket to present limits connected income of definite effect and vegetables owed to shortages of caller produce.

The institution is putting limits of 3 per lawsuit connected income of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers, owed to "a caller summation successful demand".

It follows akin moves by Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons, with immoderate consumers facing bare shelves.

Supermarkets are facing problems aft utmost upwind deed harvests abroad.

A Lidl spokesperson told the BBC that "adverse upwind conditions successful Spain and Morocco" had impacted the availability of definite crockery items.

"Whilst we inactive person bully availability crossed the bulk of our stores, owed to a caller summation successful request we person taken the determination to temporarily bounds the acquisition of peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers to 3 items per person," said Lidl. "This volition assistance to guarantee that each of our customers person entree to the products they need."

On Sunday, erstwhile situation caput George Eustice said shortages would past for 3 to 4 weeks.

Food and farming curate Mark Spencer volition conscionable the bosses of UK supermarkets connected Monday.

He said helium aims to "find retired what they are doing to get shelves stocked again and to outline however we tin debar a repetition of this".

He blamed "recent mediocre upwind successful North Africa" for the problems.