Before you pile your supermarket trolley high with imported veggies spare a thought for some of homegrown UK varieties now facing extinction

Known as 'heirloom vegetables', these old-fashioned varieties once lined allotments but are now are dying breeds. So save your favourite veggies and get growing!

Seeds of Change's Dig Your Dinner campaign encourages the nation to grow their own dinner and to help preserve tasty, endangered British vegetables.