This page can't tell you what's on the stall today. So it tells you the four things that don't change.

Pitch numbers rather than landmarks — Every market numbers its pitches and almost nobody publishes theirs. It is the single most useful line on a stall's website
Same spot every week — Markets rotate pitches for casual traders and not for regulars. If we ever move, it's on the Thursday message before it happens
When the market moves for an event — Christmas, the carnival, a market that shuts for resurfacing. Those are on the dates section below rather than discovered on arrival
Parking, honestly — Kingsgate is difficult after nine. Eastfield has the multi-storey and it's fine. Bridgefoot is on the road and you'll be lucky after ten

Late winter — roots, brassicas and stored apples — Not much colour and a lot of soup. The purple sprouting in about March is the first thing all year worth queueing for
Spring — the turn, and it is sudden — Rhubarb, then asparagus for its six or seven weeks, then the first salad. Asparagus is the shortest season on the stall and the one people miss by a fortnight
Early summer — soft fruit, and it will not wait — Strawberries, then raspberries, then currants. Buy them the day you'll eat them; a punnet bought on Tuesday for Sunday is a punnet wasted
High summer — everything, and too much of it — Beans, courgettes, tomatoes, cucumbers. This is when the stall looks like the photographs, and it is about ten weeks of the year
Autumn — the best of it — Squash, sweetcorn, plums, the last tomatoes, the first of the roots. Quietly the best month on any produce stall and nobody photographs it
What's on all year — Onions, potatoes, carrots, eggs, and whatever is in the jars. If you need one certain thing every week, it's one of those

These roll forward with the template — Replace them with your real dates before publishing. A dates section that has expired is the same sin as a "this week" page
Bank holidays move markets — Almost always. Where it affects us, it's here and on the Thursday message, a fortnight ahead rather than the night before
We don't do the fair-weather thing — The stall is there in the rain, in February, at eight in the morning. That is most of what being a regular is worth

Ask what's best today, not what's cheapest — It's a different question and it gets a much better answer. Every trader has one thing they're pleased with and will tell you about
Come early for choice, late for price — Both are real strategies and neither is wrong. What doesn't work is arriving at midday expecting both
Buy for the next two days, not the week — Nothing on a produce stall was picked for a fridge. It is better and it lasts less time, and that trade is the entire point
Bring a bag and some change — Card works — see below — but a queue moves faster on cash and everybody behind you notices
Odd shapes are the same vegetable — They're often the ones grown outside rather than under plastic. There is no difference except that a supermarket wouldn't have taken them
Tell us if something wasn't good — The following week, to our face. It's a stall, not a call centre, and it gets sorted on the spot

Prices are on the board, every item — Not "ask". A stall that hides its prices is a stall that charges different people differently, and it is the fastest way to lose a regular
Card works, and there's a minimum — Two pounds, because the fee on a fifty-pence transaction is most of the fifty pence. Contactless, and it works even when the signal doesn't
Cash still moves the queue faster — Not a rule and not a discount — just true, and worth knowing on a Saturday at half past nine
The knockdown starts at four — The last hour of the last market, on anything that won't keep to the next one. It isn't a secret and you don't have to ask for it
We don't haggle on the whole board — The price is the price, the same for everybody, including the person who asks twice. The knockdown is the version of that which is fair to everyone
What happens to what's left — It goes to the community fridge on the Saturday and the pigs on the Tuesday, in that order. Nothing decent is thrown away and nothing tired is sold

Thursday morning, before the Thursday market — Early enough to plan Saturday around. If it hasn't arrived by ten, we're setting up and it'll be there by eleven
What's in it — The list, what's about to end, what's just started, and the price of anything unusual. Four lines, sometimes five
Leaving is one word — Reply STOP and it stops, with no follow-up asking why. It's a produce list, not a relationship