1st October 2025
Citrus is exciting this month - just starting, with amazing fruit coming from the South of France, Spain and Italy. The speciality lines are now coming through - we learn something every year. October is also the month when English apples and pears really get going and it has been a once-in-a-generation crop.
For English apples, Cox is already eating well - normally later in October. Also varieties including Norfolk Royal Russet and, at the end of the month, Braeburn. Fantastic French apples from Vassout and Mouneyrac such as Reinette. Fantastic pears - William Green, William Red, Beurre Hardy. Also Kissabel, with its distinctive red flesh. We also recommend Kissabel apples with their distinctive red flesh.
Red-flesh Lovita plums from Moissac near Toulouse.
Figs - Sollies black figs from Provence, finish mid Oct.
Muscat de Hambourg and Chasselas de Moissac grapes.
Lovely squashes starting this month plus carving pumpkins.
Citrus such as Miyagawa and the first Tout Miel clementines. Speciality lines include Bergamot, Finger Limes, Green Yuzu, Combava etc.
Chestnuts in husk and walnuts.
Vegetables include roots such as beetroots, radishes, chervil root, parsley root, heritage bunched carrots.
Italian radicchios will start later this month.
END OF SEASON
-Sollies figs will end this month - switching to Turkish.
-Plums and greengage.
-Peaches and nectarines.