Dave's Market Update
In Veg
“A great week coming up for tomatoes. The best news of all is that this week across the company we have secured excellent supplies of very tasty heirloom tomatoes. As well, gourmets, mad and Truss are all quite inexpensive for late Autumn.
Other products that have reduced substantially in the vegetable category are capsicums and we have a particularly attractive yellow capsicum in the NSW stores and imperfect caps in all stores , prepack corn and iceberg lettuce.
Dutch carrots, broccoli, cauliflowers and radicchio all continue to be very attractively priced. Telegraph cucumbers are falling dramatically, and we will have a red hot special on these for the weekend.”
- David Harris
In Fruit
“We are getting some sweeter navel oranges this week and so by the weekend, the net and loose oranges will be all navels, the case sale and imperfects will remain as Valencia’s for another week or so.
In avocados, we will be transitioning to the G Max variety, a larger green skin similar to the Shepards we have been selling, apart from the size which is much larger.
Rain is making the strawberries hard to manage unfortunately. In mandarins, we are at the tail end of our QLD fruit in the Imperials, however, the southern fruit needs another week to sweeten up. Try the Daisy variety this week; not as easy to peel as the Imperials but eating well.
Finally, grapes are good value but do stick to the red or black varieties.”
- David Harris
Dave's Pick of the Week - Heirloom Tomatoes
“My pick this week is the heirloom tomatoes. I think this is the tastiest tomato we sell, and the tomato aficionados out there, pretty well all agree on that. They are old fashioned tasty tomatoes where the seed is passed down from generation to generation and it’s all about the taste.
They can be any colour you could imagine not just red. In both Qld and NSW, we are seeing these far cheaper than normal which does happen occasionally, usually only in the warmer months. All tomatoes are relatively cheap this week, however, I will be stocking up on these heirlooms.
Mostly quite misshapen but the flavour is unbelievable. Wait until they soften up before consuming.”
- David Harris
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