Good to look at and to eat, plums are one of late summer’s seasonal delights.

Luscious pears are one of the cooler months’ culinary delights.

With colours reminiscent of a Gauguin Tahitian painting, pawpaw and papaya add an instant taste of the tropics.

If life gives Alex Elliott-Howery lemons, she salts and preserves them, or makes marmalade, or perhaps lemon cordial. One thing is for sure, however, nothing will go to waste.