Best In Season May

Best In Season: May

May is perhaps the finest of months for seasonal produce. Beginning with the ritual of washing your face in the dew of the first day as well as the ceremonial maypole, May offers us two spring holidays, fresh young vegetables, succulent fruits and crunchy bright salads. What could be better than eating produce self picked that morning?

Vegetable in season are: asparagus, broad beans, broccoli, courgettes, cucumbers, Jersey Royals, lettuce, mange tout, morels, peas, radishes, samphire, sorrel, spinach, spring onions, tomatoes and watercress.

Meats in season are: spring chickens and lamb.

Seafood in season are: crab, crawfish, haddock, lobster, mackerel, prawns, salmon, sea trout, shrimp, squid and whitebait.

Fruits in season include: bananas, elderflowers, gooseberries, loquats, pineapples and rhubarb.

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