July

High summer. Peak everything.

This is it: tomatoes that taste like tomatoes, raspberries warm from the cane, cherries at their sweetest, courgettes faster than you can eat them. Beans, beetroot, fennel, sweetcorn starting. The farm shops are overflowing.

32 items in season · 12 at peak

Worth seeking out

Fresh British tomatoes - beautiful whole specimen

Tomatoes

Vine-ripened and sun-warm. This is what a tomato should taste like.

Peak: July - September

Find tomatoes nearby
Fresh British raspberries - beautiful whole specimen

Raspberries

Warm from the cane, they collapse on the tongue. Do not refrigerate.

Peak: July - August

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Fresh British runner beans - beautiful whole specimen

Runner Beans

Slice them thin on the diagonal. The scarlet flowers are edible too.

Peak: July - September

Find runner beans nearby

Coming next month

August brings plums, damsons, and sweetcorn at its peak. Blackberries free from every hedgerow.

Fresh British sweetcorn - beautiful whole specimen
August

Sweetcorn

Fresh British plums - beautiful whole specimen
August

Plums

Fresh British blackberries - beautiful whole specimen
August

Blackberries

Now find a farm shop that stocks it.

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