Shopping list

Apples, Asian pears (nashi), bananas, blackberries, coconuts, cranberries, custard apples, damsons, dates, figs, grapefruit, grapes, hazelnuts (including Kentish cobs) lemons, limes, mangoes, melons, nectarines, peaches, pears, pomegranates, quinces, satsumas, walnuts

Crab apples and medlars are in season for those lucky enough to have access to the bushes or trees – too perishable and unprepossessing in appearance for the retail food chain it seems.