What Food Is In Season In April?

Shrimp, whitebait, lobster and crab are now appearing,
food in season in April
- agretti – aka Barba di frate
asparagus - basil – just
- borage
- broad beans
broccoli and sprouting broccoli - Brussels sprouts
cabbage cauliflower - celeriac – still
- chard
- chervil
- chives
- clam

cod - coley
crab cucumber - dill
garlic (wild) globe artichokes - halibut
- herring
- herb fennel
john dory kale - kalettes (still available at the beginning of April)
kiwi fruit lamb - langoustine
lemons (knobbly Amalfi)

- lemon verbena
- lettuce and salad leaves
- lobster
- lovage
mint - mushrooms
mussels - nettles – wild
- onions
- parsley
- peas and pea shoots
pigeon (wood) - plaice
- plums – Turkish sour green
potatoes (new Jersey Royal) - prawn
radishes - red mullet
rhubarb rocket (known in the US as arugula) rosemary - salad burnet
salmon sea bass

sea trout - shrimp
sole (dover) sole (lemon) sorrel spinach - spring greens
spring onions watercress - whelks
- whitebait