13/01/2024
Our Fruit & Veg this week
Here is what our farmers are growing for us :)
Wishing you a good week everyone
Strawberries needed an umbrella last week, too much rain is never good for those yummy delicate fruit 🍓🍓🍓
Expect to pay a little more but beautiful and tasty
FRUIT
· In fruit, best value🍑🍈 options are figs, peaches, nectarines, plums, passionfruit (purple variety this week, just 79c – vs $1.50 in supermarkets), watermelon🍉 ($1.65 a kilo vs $2.50 in Coles), honeydew melon and red grapes under $8 a kilo.
· Victorian strawberries🍓 are recovering from last week’s wet weather and will be more expensive for most of this week.
· Apricots will finish by the end of the month: they’re good but not cheap.
· Rockmelons are only available in large size. Lemons are still super expensive, but limes are good value.
· New season Clapp’s Favourite Pears are available from this week, and at $2.75 a kilo, they’re good value. Oh, and pineapples are back.
VEGETABLES
· In vegetables, beans, broccoli and cauliflower are all easing in price, and broccolini is back – albeit expensive.
· Avocado prices are creeping up: they are usually expensive in February as the Hass variety is coming to the end of the season, and Shepards appear – but they have sustained some damage from cyclone Jaspar in December and the outlook is uncertain.
· For value, we’re going to rely – again – on locals: eggplant from Charlie Vella, baby gems (still small), small green cabbages ($2.47) and small wombok ($2) from George Portelli.
· Zucchini, corn, white radish and spring onions from Manuel Xerri; Steve Grima still has a lot of spaghetti squash, so if you missed out last week, now is your chance.
· Cucumbers, snake beans, and grape tomatoes from Golden Fields.
· Whilst English spinach and rocket are still out, Simon Chong will have Chinese spinach or Kangkung for $2.59 for a good-sized bunch.
· Iceberg is cheap at $2.50 a head, but sweet potatoes are tightening due to wet weather in Queensland.
See you all next week 🌱
Marie
