This month it should be possible to enjoy everything that makes a quintessential British summer. Its time for another trip to pick your own, this time for raspberries and currants – red, white and black. Pick enough to make summer pudding and jam for your cream teas. Gooseberries should now also be sweet enough for desserts, and cherries, although in limited supply, can be found this month. In warm, sheltered places it is even possible to grow peaches. Edible flowers make salads and desserts look pretty but also provide unusual and evocative flavours – try scented geraniums, lavender, blackcurrant or peach leaves in desserts; nasturtiums in salads and deep-fried courgette flowers as a first course.
| In the garden | |
| Fruit Raspberries Currants: black, red and white Dessert Gooseberries Cherries Peaches Mulberries Herbs |
Vegetables Courgettes Green Beans Bulb Fennel |
| In the wild | |
| Marsh Samphire Raspberries Bilberries (end of the month) Meadowsweet |
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| Beasts of the Land | |
| Meat & Game Lamb Rabbit Chicken |
More Cheeses: Caerphilly, Single Gloucester |
| Beasts of River and Sea | |
| Fish Crayfish John Dory Crab Sardines |
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