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Seasonal produce guide for professional kitchens

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English plums are full season this month. The first cobnuts will arrive, then the first UK apples (starting with Discovery variety) later in the month. From France, Sollies black figs are exceptional.

Apples

Discovery variety later this month

Berries

  • Blackcurrant
  • Raspberries
  • Redcurrants
  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries

Vegetables

  • Broad beans
  • Broccoli (purple, tenderstem)
  • Carrots (bunched)
  • Cauliflower
  • Cherries
  • Courgettes
  • Hispi cabbage
  • Peas
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Runner beans
  • Salads
  • Sweetcorn

Other

  • Jersey Royals (all grades)
  • Charentais | FRANCE
  • Piel de Sapo | SPAIN
  • Black Skin watermelon | SPAIN & ITALY
  • Zerbinati Pigmentato melon | ITALY

This month we should also see peaches and nectarines grown in Kent.

Apricots | EUROPE

  • Blush
  • Vanillacots

Cherries | LOCAL & EUROPE

  • Including Rainier

Peaches | LOCAL & EUROPE

  • Yellow flesh
  • White flesh

Plums | LOCAL & EUROPE

  • Damsons
  • Metis / red-flesh
  • Mirabelle
  • Reine Claude / greengage
  • Sloes
  • Blackberries
  • Blackcurrant
  • Blueberry
  • Gooseberries (red / green)
  • Pineberry
  • Redcurrant
  • Strasberry
  • Strawberries (Anais, Mara de Bois)
  • Raspberries
  • Whitecurrant
  • White strawberry
  • Wild strawberries / Frais de Bois
  • Apricots | EUROPE
  • Berries (see list above) | LOCAL & EUROPE
  • Cherries | LOCAL & EUROPE
  • Figs | EUROPE
  • Grapes (Fragola, Muscat, Strawberry) | EUROPE
  • Melons | EUROPE
  • Nectarines (incl blood) | EUROPE
  • Peaches (incl pêche de vigne / blood peach) | FRANCE
  • Plums | LOCAL
  • Flowers (male / female)
  • Patty pans
  • Romanesco
  • Round (green / yellow)
  • Trombetta / Tromboncino
  • Yellow
  • White
  • Borlotti beans | ITALY
  • Broad beans | LOCAL
  • Coco beans | FRANCE
  • Runner beans | LOCAL
  • Yellow beans | FRANCE & ITALY
  • Ceps | EASTERN EUROPE
  • Girolle | SCOTLAND & E EUROPE
  • Morels
  • Elderberries
  • Fig leaves
  • Noble Fir cones
  • Rosehips
  • Scottish girolle
  • Sea aster
  • Sea orache
  • Sea chickweed
  • Sloes and cherry plum
  • Kombu kelp
  • Artichokes (baby bunched, Globe) | FRANCE
  • Cornichons | FRANCE
  • Hazelnuts | FRANCE
  • Hops | LOCAL
  • Radish (Blue Meat) | EUROPE
  • Lautrec garlic | FRANCE
  • Marrows | LOCAL
  • Wet walnuts | LOCAL
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This list is designed to assist with forward planning for your menus. Expand each category to find out more. For the latest seasonal updates, contact us directly.