Waitrose set to offer grape-sized watermelon
It has reached the high street as a grow-your-own plant alongside tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.
Cucamelon plants and Indigo Rose tomato plants go on sale in 50 Waitrose branches costing £4 a pot
Waitrose is to offer pots of the vines that produce the cucamelons as part of a wider collection of plants that can be grown on a windowsill, tub or a vegetable plot.
The cucamelon plants have been grown by Suttons Seeds in Yorkshire and are part of a range created by James Wong, the Kew-trained botanist, science writer and author of the book Homegrown Revolution.
It also includes several salad tomato varieties, sweetcorn, cucumber and peppers, including the powerful Scotch Bonnet chilli.
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