On a regular basis, we’ll bring you suggestions on the best produce to buy, advise you of the many innovations in fruit and vegetables, recommend quick and easy ways to prepare fruit and vegetables and offer nutritional information and hints on storage of our fresh produce.
David is enjoying a well earned break for the next few weeks, and has entrusted his blog during this time to Marty Devlin, a Harris Farm produce buyer.
Spring has finally arrived! This week in fruit, mulberries from
In vegies, beans are holding strong. Snow peas from
As we approach Spring time, as always there are a few more vegies around. Particularly good value this week are red capsicums (even cheaper than last week), kumara and particularly broccoli. In the next couple of weeks all leaf line vegies and cauliflowers, cabbage and the like, all look like becoming cheaper also.
For fruit, really good seedless watermelon from the Kimberly is nearly half the price of last week. Beautiful honey murcott mandarins from
This looks to be the start of a great week for fruit. All of us at Harris Farm are very excited about this year's Australian mango season. We will have the first of our Northern Territory mangoes in store this weekend. Of course they will only get better and less expensive as time goes on, but it looks like a gret start to the season. The real glut of Queensland strawberries is now underway and there will be great bargains in these in all Harris Farm stores over the next 2 weeks. This week our imported flame seedless grapes are very good eating and a great price, but the falling Australian dollar will change this in the future. The bad news is we are going to have a couple of weeks of dearer bananas.
In vegies, beans and lettuce that have been reasonable in the last few weeks are now through the roof. One of my favourite potatoes is the desiree, and this week they are cheaper than they have been for a few weeks. Zucchini are well back in price, red capsicum remains a bargain and good supplies of Australian asparagus are now underway
This week we have fantastic Tasmanian red or Spanish onions. There are only a couple of weeks each year that these beautiful onions are cheaper than traditional brown onions. From Forth Farm produce in Tasmanian these onions usually end up on the table in
In fruit the start of the annual August glut old strawberries is just starting and you will see great specials over the next 3 or 4 weeks. This is very good time for Paw Paw and Pineapples also.