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The almost summery heat experienced by France during the month of October has consequences on the maturity of fruits and vegetables. In the fields, tomatoes and peppers, which are summer vegetables, continue to delight customers.
Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers… Summer vegetables go into extra time in October. Many customers still come to pick their vegetables and fill their baskets at a producer. Vincent Liénard, manager of the picking of Saint-Gratien (Val-d’Oise), is delighted: “We have vegetables that are maturing, unlike usual. It can be salads that are getting bigger or tomatoes that are turning red, so all these vegetables that we are no longer used to eating at this time normally.”
The Indian summer also does damage. The winter vegetables have grown too quickly, like lamb’s lettuce in the greenhouses of a market gardener. He will have to destroy 300 kilos of harvest. There are also more than 25°C under the olive trees. Thus, even the Southeast records temperatures that are too mild for the season. Something to disorient all plants, flowers and fruit trees.