date:Sep 26, 2013
UK retailer MS is replacing Spanish melons with a British-grown variety from Staffordshire, after the uncharacteristic hot summer weather triggered a bumper crop of the fruit.
MS introduced this year's crop of British-grown Galia melons last week, which helped to push sales of the variety up by 20%.
The melons come from David and Stephen McGuffie, who have supplied MS with the exotic fruit for the past four years after visiting melon farmers in Spain and developing their own system using plast