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Fruit and Veg in Season for July 2025

Fruit and Veg in Season for July 2025

Fruit and Vegetable Market Report for July 2025

The cherry harvest is underway - so you'll find homegrown fruit alongside imports from Europe.

Cherries

Down in Kent, one grower is picking peaches and nectarines for the Market. But the bulk of the stone fruit is from France, Italy and Spain.

For peaches, you can choose between white, yellow, blood-red and flat doughnut varieties. Apricots include the new cultivar 'vanillacot'. Plums are yet to start in earnest.

Donut peaches

UK currants and gooseberries are ready - both green and red. 

Gooseberries

Aren't these translucent white currants just stunning?

Whitecurrants

You will find melons of all kinds on Buyer's Walk - from Charentais (pictured below) to yellow-flesh watermelons.

 Charentais melons

The figs below are Italian; black Spanish also available.

Figs

UK runner beans have begun, joining peas and broad beans.

Runner beans

The maincrop potato harvest is still underground but wholesalers offer a selection of early scrapers such as these spuds from Norfolk.

Norfolk new potatoes

Other UK lines include brassicas such as broccoli, tenderstem and summer cauliflowers. UK salads and bunched carrots are excellent.

Cauliflowers

Plenty of tomatoes, too - both from British growers and the EU.

Tomatoes

Courgettes are abundant - with the UK crop now coming in.

Round courgettes

Beans include Borlotti, fine green, runners and early Coco de Paimpol.

Borlotti beans

For mushrooms, it's all about Scottish girolle this month - a class act.

Scottish girolle

See you in August for our next Market Report and the first English apples.

by 
Tommy Leighton
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