The market year · VII of XXIV · a great turn
May Day
The cold gardeners (Eisheiligen)
- Opens
- 1 May
- Holds
- 14 days
- Season
- Spring
May Day is turn VII of the twenty-four the European market year runs on, and one of the eight great turns. It opens on 1 May and holds 14 days, until Cold Sophia takes over on 15 May.
Walk to May DayOn the stall
What is in season at the middle of this turn, computed from the green days catalogue. Med marks what only shows up in Mediterranean markets, North what only shows up north of them.
At peak
Also about
- Spring onion
- Wild garlic
- Radish
- Breakfast radish
- New potato
- Pointed / hispi cabbage
- Spring greens
- Cauliflower
- Purple sprouting broccoli
- Spinach
- Rocket / arugula
- Lettuce (butterhead)
- Romaine / cos
- Watercress
- Asparagus
- Globe artichoke
- Broad beans / fava
- Garden peas
- Parsley
- Coriander / cilantro
- Mint
- Chervil
- Chives