MARKET REPORT FOR JUNE 2023

Top pick for June include Annabel’s strawberries - scroll down for more info on this top notch grower. Le Marché was Annabel’s first customer!

Headlines this month include a premature end to the UK asparagus season. This season is the worst I have ever known. It’s still available and will run to the end of June but quality is poor. Top grades are more scarce due to unfavourable weather.

Highlights include cherries, elderflower (short season), Charentais melons, courgettes and their flowers, aubergines (Graffiti, long, round, baby), wet garlic, lemon verbena, basil flowers, white/purple chive flowers, fig leaves, black skin seedless watermelon. Girolles are in season. We also highly recommend the range of baby veg from Remfresh, based near Colchester.

It’s French artichoke season, which includes Globe, purple, baby, Petit Violet.

First English peas at the end of this week. The first couple of weeks are always amazing. Borlotti and broad beans available from Italy.

Stone fruit from Europe is building up momentum - it will be another few weeks until the fruit is eating well. Plums haven’t started yet.

Potatoes are an issue. It’s very hard to source true large potatoes. Prices are high. The new crop is due later this summer. Available now are Jersey ware, Noirmoutier, Linzer, Ile de Re Potatoes and new crop Cornish due soon.

Berries include Mara de Bois, Strawberry Anais. Raspberries include, Tulameen, yellow, black. First gooseberries coming through. Gariguettes are coming to an end.

Tomatoes include Marmande, Pineapple, Noir Crimee, Zebra, Coeur de Boeuf, Rabelais and the UK crop from Nutbourne.