What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season Right Now? April Produce Guide 2025

A quick stroll through the market right now and you know it's April because tables are stacked with those quintessential Spring fruits and vegetables like asparagus, artichokes, and crisp snap peas. Use this list of what fruits and vegetables in season in April as your Guide to the BEST recipes and ideas to eat. Shall we?

Fruits and Vegetables in Season in April | Recipes and Ideas for April |
Fruits and Vegetables in Season Year-Round

What Fruits and Vegetables in Season in April

Here's the tl;dr list easy to copy and paste into your grocery list for the week ahead. Peep the following section for more details, and the best recipes that are fast, fresh, easy, and of course, healthy.

• Artichokes—year-round from California
• Asparagus
• Avocados
• Blueberries
• Cantaloupe—other melons come later in spring and summer
• Carrots, especially babies!—it's the season for teeny tiny baby version of everything!
• Cherries and apricots, the earliest stone fruits
• Cucumbers
• Fava and other fresh beans
• Garlic and onions—always in season but early spring brings tender green garlic!
• Kiwi
• Lettuce and Leafy Greens—year-round
• Mushrooms, specifically morels which are foraged
• Peas and snap peas
• Radishes (year-round)
• Rhubarb—very short window, grab them when you see them!
• Spinach—technically a cool season vegetable
• Strawberries, in California year round in California, but everywhere else starting April!
• Tomatoes, early varieties
• Tropical Fruit

Recipes and Ideas for April

ARTICHOKES and ASPARAGUS

• Spinach and Artichoke Grilled Cheese
• Prosciutto-wrapped Asparagus

AVOCADO

You've been tolerating the watery avocados of winter that are almost always bruised because they're thrown into cold storage and transported from afar. But April is when avocados closer to home come into season.

• How to Cut and Slice Avocado, Five Ways
• Avocado Hummus
• Avocado Citrus Salad
• California Roll Summer Rolls with Avocado

BLUEBERRIES

Look, blueberries are in the category of food of "Why Mess with the Best?" i.e. just wash them and eat them fresh right out of hand. However, when blueberries are abundant in season, you might as well put them in everything for their extraordinary antioxidant profile.

• Blueberry Avocado salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
• Blueberry Muffin Baked Oatmeal

CANTALOUPE

CHERRIES

Cherries are another fruit in the "Why Mess with the Best?" category, i.e. just wash them and eat them fresh right out of hand, especially if we're talking about eating the antioxidant-rich fruit as anything but a baked sweet treat. But since everything cherries—from jewelry to paint colors—will be trending in 2025, buy as many as you can and make these recipes:

• Cherry Tabbouleh
• Cherry Salsa for Grilled Salmon
• Cherry Pomegranate Smoothie
• How to Pit Cherries without a Pitter
• Summer Red Fruit Salad with Berries and Cherries

CARROTS

You probably don't pay that much attention to carrots the rest of the year except as a flavor base along with fellow NPCs onions and celery for soups or as a supporting ingredient. But in the winter, when other main character vegetables are off-duty, carrots can take center stage with their bright, crisp, subtly sweet, vitamin A-rich glory.

• viral tiktok trend Spicy Carrot Salad
• Spicy Carrot Lentil Soup
• Gochujang Glazed Carrots
• Pickled Carrots and Daikon
• Carrot Cake

CUCUMBERS

• Cucumber Avocado Salad
• Spicy Cucumbers, Din Tai Fung Dupe
• Korean Spicy Cucumbers, Oi Muchim

FAVA BEANS and other FRESH BEANS

MUSHROOMS

• Mushrooms Lentil Salad
• Mushroom Barley Soup
• Shiitake Mushroom Bacon
• How to Cook Lion's Mane Mushrooms
• Mushroom Stock

PEAS and SNAP PEAS

• Green Goddess Crudités Board

RADISHES

• Pickled Carrots and Daikon Radishes
• Korean Pickled Radishes, Chicken Mu
• Spicy Korean Radish Salad, Mu-saeng-chae
• Radish Kimchi aka Kkak-du-gi

SPINACH

Spinach is technically a cool season vegetable in season in spring and fall, but you know you see it year round in the grocery store. If you make it to a local farmers' market, you'll find the Spring varieties starting in April!

• Spinach Artichoke Grilled Cheese
• Korean Sesame Spinach, Shi-geum-chi Namul

STRAWBERRIES

• Strawberry Salad
• Strawberry Chia Jam
• Strawberry Mochi Cake
• How to Keep Strawberries Fresh

Fruit and Vegetables in Season Right Now and Always

These fruits and vegetables are considered "always in season!" At least here in California!

Vegetables in Season Year Round

• Artichokes, you wouldn't believe it because they're so closely associated with spring, but California grows artichokes year-round!
• Beets
  • Beet hummus
  • Tzatziki with roasted beets
• Broccoli, cauliflower and fam, except brussels
  • Best Burnt Broccoli
  • Cauliflower Parm
  • Cauliflower Gratin
  • Whole Roasted Cauliflower
  • Roasted Curried Cauliflower
  • How to Cut Cauliflower Steaks
  • Pull Apart Garlic Cheese Whole Cauliflower "Loaf"
• Cabbage
  • Cabbage Apple Salad with Miso Mustard Dressing
• Carrots
  • Spicy Carrot Salad
  • Gochujang Roasted Carrots
  • Spicy Carrot Lentil Soup
  • Pickled Carrots and Daikon
  • Carrot Cake
  • Spring Rolls with Flowers
  • Carrot Cake topped with Nasturtiums
• Garlic
  • Asian Garlic Noodles
  • Thomas Keller's Garlic Confit
  • Caramelized Garlic Cauliflower Soup
• Herbs
  • cilantro: Peruvian Green Sauce Aji Verde
  • cilantro: Cilantro Lime Dressing
  • dill: Dill Pickled Chopped Salad
  • parsley: Olive Salsa Verde
  • parsley: Italian Salsa Verde
  • rosemary: Rosemary Olive Oil Cake
  • rosemary: Rosemary White Bean Dip
  • thyme: Meyer Lemon Thyme Olive Oil Cake
• lettuces and leafy greens
• mushrooms
  • Roasted Shiitake Mushroom "Bacon"
  • How to Cook Lion's Mane Mushrooms
  • California Sushi Rolls with Mushrooms
  • Summer Rolls with Mushrooms
• Onions
  • Perfect Pickled Onions
  • Salsa Criolla Lime Pickled Onions
  • French Onion Soup
  • Pissaladiere with Caramelized Onions
• Potatoes
  • Korean Potato Salad
  • Roasted Garlic Potato Salad
  • Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Feta and Honey
  • Salt and Vinegar Crispy Smashed Potatoes
• Radishes
  • Pickled Radish
  • Vietnamese Pickled Carrots and Radish Do Chua
  • Soy Sauce Pickled Radish and Onions
  • Spicy Radish Salad, aka musaengchae
  • Radish Kimchi, aka "kkadugi"
• Sweet potatoes
• Whipped Sweet Potatoes with Feta and Pomegranate

Fruits in Season Year Round

• Lemons and Limes
  • Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing
  • Cilantro Lime Vinaigrette
  • Lemon Olive Oil Cake
  • Marcella Hazan's Roast Chicken with Lemons

• Mandarins and Tangerines
  • Avocado Citrus Salad
  • Baked Salmon with Citrus
  • Mandarin Chicken Salad
• Oranges
  • Orange Olive Oil Cake
  • for your Cheese and Charcuterie Boards: Candied Oranges
  • for your cocktail garnishes: Dried Oranges
• Strawberries
  • Strawberry Salad
  • Strawberry Mochi Cake
  • Strawberry Chia Jam
  • How to Keep Strawberries Fresh
• Edible flowers
  • Spring Rolls with Flowers
  • Carrot Cake topped with Nasturtiums
• Dried Fruit
  • Pickled Prunes
  • Brownie Baked Oatmeal with Prunes
  • Pinot Prune Jam
  • Healthy Chocolate Spread aka "No-tella"
  • Chocolate Salami for Dessert Platters
  • Homemade Hoisin Sauce
  • Cauliflower Sicilian-style with Raisins and Pistachios

Coming Soon: In Season in May and June

Blackberries, Boysenberries, Raspberries—May - October
Cherry tomatoes
Corn
Figs—May, September-November
Grapes May to January
Green beans
Melons
Mulberries
New/baby potatoes
Okra
Peaches, nectarines and plums—May to October
Peppers—May to December
Snow peas
Squash Summer - May to October

What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season, by Month

Planning ahead? Here's what fruits and vegetables are in season for the months coming up:

• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in January
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in February
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in March
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in April—we're here!
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in May
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in June
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in July
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in August
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in September
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in October
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in November
• What Fruits and Vegetables are in Season in December