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October: what’s in season?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Vegetables: beetroot, borlotti beans (for podding), broccoli (Calabrese), Brussels sprouts, cabbages (red, white, green and Savoy), cardoons, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chard, courgettes, fennel, kale (and borecole), kohlrabi, leeks, marrow, onions, peppers and chillies, potatoes, pumpkins, rocket, runner beans, salsify (and scorzonera), spinach, squash, sweetcorn, tomatoes, turnips

Fruit: apples (egremont russet, blenheim orange, orleans reinette, cox’s, fiesta, ashmead’s kernel, bramley, blackberries, grapes (English hothouse), medlars, pears (concorde, doyenne du comice, conference, winter nellis), quince, raspberries

Wild greens and herbs: nettles, watercress

Wildflowers and fruits: bullace, crab apples, damsons, juniper berries, rosehips, rowan berries, sloes

Fungi and nuts: chanterelles, chestnuts, hedgehog fungus, horse mushrooms, oyster mushrooms (pleurottes), parasol mushrooms, puffballs, giant, shaggy ink caps, summer truffles, walnuts, wood blewits

Fish and shellfish: cod, crab (brown, hen and spider), eels, lobster, mackerel, mussels, oysters (native and rock), prawns, salmon (wild), scallops, sea bass, sprats, squid, trout, river (ie brown and rainbow)

Game: goose (wild), grey squirrel, grouse, hare, mallard, partridge, rabbit, wood pigeon