'Dig for Brexit', literally

Magic beans? Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

In Britain, vegetable seeds are worth their weight in tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and avocadoes, the four things supermarkets are restricting right now. The Royal Horticultural Society has made known that demand for seeds rose 20 per cent this February compared to last year.

Suffolk firm Mr Fothergill’s Seeds is reporting one of its best online sales periods with transactions jumping nearly 50 per cent last month.

It’s not just seeds, of course. People are also buying pots to put them in. Soil. Propagators. Trays. The stuff of gardening, whether in the back yard, on a patio or anywhere else. Dorset and Somerset-based Gardens Group says garden paraphernalia is flying off the shelves, and Mike Burks, its managing director, has noted that people seem interested in growing potatoes, peas, beans, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale and peppers, along with ingredients for the typical salad — tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce.

Clearly, Britain’s salad …