April

Spring in Britain is not really about food. It is more about snowdrops, daffodils and cherry blossom, or baby lambs gambolling in a field. There are leaves and flowers but no fruit. What we call spring vegetables – the new carrots and turnips, asparagus, peas and broad beans – don’t start until the middle of April at the earliest. Similarly, the grass has recently started growing, so the cattle and sheep are only just coming off winter rations and the ‘new season’s lamb’ has spent its life in a barn being fed on concentrates.