What's in season: September

September is a great month for fruit and veg.  I'm still clinging on to hopes for an Indian summer, so I might make some strawberry tarts to coax the sunshine out!  There's no denying that the nights are starting to draw in though, so I think the time might've come to start making satisfying homemade soups.

Vegetables: Artichokes, aubergines, beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, chard, chillies, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, garlic, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, wild mushrooms, onions, spring onions, peas, parsnips, potatoes, pumpkins, sorrel, spinach, squash, swede, sweetcorn, turnips, watercress.

Fruit: Apples, apricots, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, chestnuts, cobnuts, crab apples, damsons, elderberries, figs, gooseberries, loganberries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries, redcurrants, strawberries, tomatoes, walnuts.