Happy April! While I luckily avoided any April Fools Day pranks, I have been embracing the flood of new fruit, veg, nuts, and herbs that are ripe and ready this month. Look out for the following at your local grocers, market, or even supermarket as they’ll be most nutritious and cheapest too:
Vegetables in season in April
- Asparagus
- Bell peppers
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Celeriac
- Celery
- Chard
- Cress
- Cucumber
- Garlic
- Kale
- Lambs lettuce
- Leeks
- Lettuce
- Mushrooms
- Nettles
- New potatoes
- Onion
- Pak choi
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Purple sprouting broccoli
- Radicchio
- Radishes
- Red cabbage
- Rhubarb
- Rocket lettuce
- Salsify
- Shallots
- Spinach
- Spring green cabbage
- Spring onions
- Sweet potatoes
- Turnips
Nuts in season in April
- Almonds
- Pecans
- Pistachios
- Walnuts
Fruits in season in April
- Apples
- Asian pears
- Avocados
- Bananas
- Cherimoyas
- Cherries
- Dates
- Grapefruit
- Guavas
- Kiwi fruit
- Kumquats
- Lemons
- Limes
- Mandarins
- Oranges
- Passion fruit
- Pears
- Pomelos
- Pomegranates
- Rhubarb
- Strawberries
Herbs in season in April
- Bay leaf
- Borage
- Chamomile
- Chervil
- Chives
- Elderflower
- Garlic chives
- Lavender
- Lovage
- Mint
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Rosemary
- Sorrel
- Thyme
- Watercress
