Food Ideas For May

Scroll down for ideas for growing, cooking and eating seasonal foods in May.

First, enjoy this video of the May Book "Lettuce And The Butterfly"

May Eating

Seasonal foods in May.

Grow your own, or buy local this month:

Asparagus

Broad beans

Carrots (short stump baby varieties)

Elderflower

Horseradish

New potatoes

Lettuce and other early salad leaves

Mushrooms (cultivated)

Peas

Purple Sprouting Broccoli (last few)

Radishes

Rocket

Spinach

Spring onions

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

Pak Choi

These have to be imported :

Bananas

Grapefruit

Pineapple

Plantain

Watermelon

May Growing

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

May Cooking

Things to cook with children with seasonal foods in May.

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

Cover image for The Foodies Books May Book of the Month - Lettuce And The Butterfly. It is a colourful book cover for children in sky blue and dark orange showing a lettuce character. This is a lower res version for the web.