Fruit

Apricots are improving and British cherries are on the horizon, but June really belongs to the strawberry. The earliest English varieties from Hampshire and the Cheddar Gorge are available through a few specialist retailers in the first week or so of June; supplies from Kent following on by mid-month. The main flush of outdoor crops and the pick-your-own farms will be open by the second or third weeks of the month. Gooseberries should be in full flood by then too. There may be a few raspberries by the very end of the month.