Dave's Market Update
In Fruit
“Best news is the huge quantities of Aussie limes available this week, per kilo they are about a quarter the price of imported lemons. So do yourself and our Aussie farmers a favour and switch to limes.
Peaches and nectarines are both great value. My pick for eating are white nectarines and yellow peaches. Still a few good dry cherries from Tasmania and all grapes are now excellent… I think the whites are best. Mangoes are still good however storms have affected the crop and there is a plethora of imperfect fruit.
Seedless watermelon remains inexpensive and great quality. Blacks are my pick of the berries this week. Be wary of strawberries, just too much rain on them. They won’t keep well at all. There are some very good lychees out there and they are far less expensive than last week.
In Veg
Great supplies of top-quality Tasmanian broccoli from Harvest Moon this week, it will be very close to half last week’s price. The weather is better in Tassie than Victoria so we are searching for veggies there. Beans that we had on last weekend have continued this week and are even a tad cheaper!
Caulies have also eased; this rain and warm weather brings them on very quickly. Telegraph cucumbers are a bargain and by this weekend, we have an abundance of gourmet tomatoes in store that we will be selling very cheaply!"
- David Harris
Dave's Pick of the Week
“It happens every year in mid-January. Lemons grown in Australia become very scarce during this month and in February and so we rely on the United States for supply, as lemon consumption has grown dramatically in the last decade.Mother Nature is clever because she then has limes in abundance to replace the lemons. All Australian, fantastic limes. They will be much cheaper than the imported lemons and even half the price of imperfect lemons over the next month. Don’t pay more than you need to substitute an Aussie lime for an imported lemon”.
- David Harris
