Food Ideas For July

Scroll down for ideas for growing, cooking and exploring seasonal foods in July.

First, enjoy this video of the July Book "Tomato Says Sorry"

July Eating

Seasonal foods in July.

Grow your own, or buy local this month:

Artichoke (globe)

Aubergine

Beetroot

Blackcurrants

Blueberries (and wild bilberries)

Broad beans

Broccoli

Carrots

Chard

Cherries

Courgettes

Cucumber

Fennel

French beans

Garlic

Gooseberry

Horseradish

Lettuce

Mangetout 

Marrows

Mushrooms (cultivated)

Grow your own, or buy local (continued):

Onions

Pak Choi

Peas 

Peppers

Plums

Potatoes

Radishes

Raspberries

Redcurrants

Rocket

Runner beans

Salad leaves

Shallots

Sorrel

Spinach

Spring Onions

Strawberries

Summer squashes

Tomatoes

Turnips (new baby)

Watercress

These can grow here, but most of the ones you will find in shops are imported:

Apricots

Artichoke (globe)

Fennel 

Figs

Melon

Nectarines

Okra

Pak choi

Peppers

Peaches

These have to be imported :

Banana

Pineapple

Plantain

Pomegranate

Watermelon

July Cooking

Jobs in the garden this month, things for children to grow and do.

July Cooking

Things to cook with children with seasonal foods in July.

Buy the book of the month - click the book image below

Cover image for The Foodies Books July Book of the Month - Tomato Says Sorry. It is a colourful book cover for children in yellow and green showing a tomato character. This is a lower res version for the web.