harvest to home market update 20 September, 2011

Warmer days and cold nights – what a combination and almost perfect growing weather! As a result we are seeing loads of mandarins, navels, blood oranges, avocado, apples, pears, strawberries, celery, rhubarb, leek and eggplant. The smaller and highly-coloured Truss tomatoes are great eating and be sure to give Aussie asparagus a good go as we are entering their peak growth month.

The Good News:
Avocado (well priced)
Beans - Green and Handpicked (prices eased and good supply)
Beetroot (large better)
Broccoli (prices cheap)
Cabbage (all good)
Chilli (Red and Birdseye easing)
Red, Green and Yellow Capsicum (all cheap)
Cauliflower (good and cheap)
Celeriac (good)
Celery (good and cheap)
Corn (plenty and cheap)
Eggplant (QLD now and prices cheap)
Fennel
Oranges (CHEAP!)
Blood Oranges (plenty about)
Strawberries (great quality and cheap)
Grapefruit
Kiwi fruit (good quality and cheap)
Leek (good quality and plenty about)
Lettuce (prices down)
Mandarins (good quality and cheap)
Mango (plenty about)
Mushrooms (Button are good and Flat getting better),
Parsnip (plenty about)
Peas, Snowpeas and Sugarsnap (Australian best and cheap)
Tomato (prices easing)

The Not so Good News:
Chilli (Green scarce)
Cucumber (Telegraph and Lebanese price rising)
Ginger (still high price)
Kumera (limited supply)
Lemons (prices heading up)
Limes (high prices)
Mandarin (quality on the way out)
Melons (prices not great)
Onions (Brown up in price)
Butternut Pumpkin (very pricey)

Generally good news across the board on the produce front and there’s more to come, with the weather warming up that only means one thing. Tropical fruit season is just around the corner.

Until next week, happy and healthy eating!

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