At times it can be difficult to know which fruit and vegetables are in season because so many of them are available in store year round. But if we were to imagine we could all just wander out into our own vegetable gardens and orchards here's what we would have to choose from, in season, in Autumn... Fruit and Nuts: Apples (from March new-season Golden Delicious, Galas and, in an early year, Fujis: then from May Granny Smith, Pink Ladies and Lady Williams) Bananas Chestnuts Crabapples Figs Grapes Hazelnuts Meyer Lemon (in May) Macadamias (from March to April in the Barossa) Medlars Olives Pears Persimmons Pistachios Pomegranates Quinces Walnuts Vegetables: Broccoli, Romanesco Capsicums/peppers (at their peak) Cardoons (early ones) Chervil Eggplants/aubergines (at their peak) Fennel bulbs (early ones) Jerusalem artichokes Lamb’s lettuce Mushrooms (wild ones such as Saffron Milk Caps, Boletus and Pine Mushrooms) Potatoes (Kipflers) Pumpkins (at their peak) Radicchio Salsify Silverbeet and Chard Spinach Tomatoes (at their peak) White Sweet Potatoes (and continuing into winter)
