I’m continuing my monthly series of what’s in season each month this month with my guide to fruit and vegetables in season in July.
July is such a wonderful month for seasonal produce – I feel like we’re really spoiled for choice here in the UK.
This month I’ve continued to share what produce is in season, because I don’t know about you, but I have found having a list to hand of what to look out for when I am at the supermarket or local shop is really handy for meal planning.
Something I also learned this month was about economy. I knew it was cheaper to buy fruit and vegetables in season, but I didn’t know quite how much. Thankfully Eat Seasonably has done the maths for me and says that a basket of in-season fruit and vegetables can be a third cheaper than the same one bought out of season. A third! That’s a whole lot of money! It also saves a load of carbon too, eating locally produced foods, rather than foods imported from abroad. Double win!
Cherries, curly lettuce, and cucumber are at their best in July, but here’s the definitive list of fruit and vegetables in season in July in the UK. I’ve also snuck the in-season herbs in again.
The Fruit In Season In July
There is A LOT of fruit in season in July, so take your pick from this lovely lot.
- Bilberries
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Bramley Apples
- Cherries
- Greengages
- Gooseberries – here’s a delicious gooseberry clafoutis recipe
- Peaches
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb
- Strawberries – try these strawberry and basil scones
The Vegetables to Eat Now
Again, you really are spoiled for choice when it comes to vegetables in season in July:
- Artichokes
- Aubergine
- Beetroot
- Broad Beans
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chillis
- Cos Lettuce
- Courgette
- Cucumber – here’s how to pickle cucumbers if you have too many!
- Curly Lettuce
- Fennel
- French Beans
- Garlic
- Iceberg Lettuce
- Jersey Royal Potatoes
- Kohlrabi
- Mangetout
- New Potatoes
- Onions
- Pak Choi
- Peas
- Radishes
- Runner Beans
- Savoy Cabbage
- Samphire
- Spinach – here are 10 vegetarian spinach recipes
- Spring Onions – here’s how to store spring onions to keep them fresher for longer.
- Tomatoes
- Turnip
- Watercress
The Herbs to Eat Now
The seasonal glut does not end at just fruit and vegetables. There are a ton of herbs in season right now too.
- Basil
- Chervil
- Chives
- Coriander
- Dill
- Elderflowers – try this elderflower cordial recipe
- Oregano
- Mint – here’s how to dry mint leaves for tea.
- Nasturtium
- Parsley (curly and flat-leafed)
- Rocket
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Sorrel
- Tarragon
- Thyme
What’s on your menu for July? As well as cherries, I personally go mad for anything courgette at this time of year! I need to try one of these courgette recipes.
Strawberries
I simply adore cherry tomatoes on the vine! I grow lots of varieties but cherries are my favouries on salads and I love slicing beef tomatoes for sandwiches!
Great post again.. love sharing these with our students!
I love Greengages so am happy to see that they’ve made it to the list. There are a couple of greengage trees in Sheffield which we go and pick and they’re lovely to eat straight off the tree, in a pudding or as jam!
love fruit :)
Enjoying cheap apricots and cherries at the moment. The chart looks great, would be really handy.
Love summer fruit – I can’t decide between peaches and strawberries!
My favourite summer fruit is a gooseberry. So versatile – I love gooseberry compote with mackerel. (or in crumble, with cream)
Cherries :) big bowls of them, spitting out the stones. Beautiful.
hmmmm it’s got to be strawberries but my Dad would definitely say Rhubarb!
Thanks so much for these guides, they’re really helpful!
So many to choose from, but it’s got to be elderflowers! Infuse them with strawberries or peaches, have a refreshing cordial or add to bubbly, or my new all-time favourite – elderflower gin & tonic….mmm mmmm :-)
I would choose Courgettes as I love them and they can be cooked so many ways x
What a great guide! I absolutely love cherry tomatoes & fresh strawberries in the summer! So sweet and delicious :)
So difficult! Blueberries or strawberries I think!
Blackberries, there is such an abundance of them in late summer. I love having blackberry stained fingers and blackberry stained mouth when I pick and eat them in the valley near my house.
I love fruit when in season it tastes so much better. Pick your own farms are also amazing
The whole family loves watercress, especially when it’s watercress soup! So cooling, it’s perfect for the Summer, woohoo!
I can’t choose just one! I love grabbing fresh herbs from my garden; rocket for salad, chives for potatoes, mint for tea…Oooh and where I live we grow the best peaches and nectarines that I can’t get enough of!
Before I was pregnant with no 1 we started to only buy seasonal food produced in the UK – I had never been so excited to see rhubarb in my life (after months of apples and pears).. The chart may make me want to do it all again after the birth of no 2 (ie after cravings zone). Great illustration, thanks for the giveaway!
Watermelon!
After spending some time in Hong Kong, where I ate it at least twice a day, I don’t feel as if I have truly experienced summer unless I have eaten more than my weight in watermelon.
Strawberries – no question – but they have to be locally grown and seasonal. You can tell by their scent if they’re going to taste good.
And tomatoes – I can’t get enough of them in the summer – again, I smell them first!
Fresh young carrots, fresh out the ground. Yum.
Raspberries x
Cherrys – picked warm off my tree …yummy x
Red gooseberries,v prickly to pick but worth itbas naturally sweet and yummy as compote,jam,chutney and goosgog crumble xxx
Berries! Especially blackberries just picked from my garden…
Peaches. They remind me of summer at my grandmother’s house in the South of France, where my great uncle would bring a whole crate of them… They were gone in less than a week.
at the moment it has to be strawberries – freshly picked from the garden
My favorite summer fruit is watermelon. Sometimes I don’t even bother to eat a meal because watermelon is so filling.
Cherries! I wait every year for the sweet plump British cherries to be in season, absolutely delicious!
My favourite veg in July is peas, my favourite fruit blueberries- Im off to the plot to see if I have any :-)
Aubergine – yummy just done the veggie moussaka recipe in vegetarian magazine Stella.
Oh, sounds delicious! Not heard of Stella but it sounds right up my street!