“A couple of real bargains in fruit this week. Firstly, premium lemons have halved in price since last week. Secondly, we transition this week from the old season Hass avocadoes from Western Australia to the new season North Queensland Shepard variety. This week, we are promoting our imperfect line of this new season fruit. They have scar marks on the skin but as they ripen, they cut like butter - they are cheap and good.

Grapes continue to be our main fruit line. The loose white seedless Autumn Crisp variety are a truly stunning grape. This week and next will be the best weeks for this line but plantings happening right now will see a much extended season in the future.

Rockmelons are very good value and March is always a great time to eat them. Queensland stores are still having transport and supply issues but hopefully all will be back to normal by this weekend."

"This week, I want to talk about a couple of extraordinary products that are quite expensive but something quite unique. It's a small window, and they're just the most fantastic fruit products for most of the year.

The first one is these loose Autumn Crisp grapes. The season is about six weeks. They're truly a magnificent piece of fruit. They're crunchy, they're sweet, and they're a new variety (American variety) but grown here in Australia. They are pushing all the other old white grapes out. In a couple of years' time, this is what you'll be buying but at the moment, we and the export market are getting are getting only big fruit, which is just fantastic. It's crunchy, it's just such a special grape. It is double the price of the other ones, but we are selling more and more each week. I think it's double the value.

These fabulous big Autumn Crisp grapes are coming from the Robinvale area. There's a family down there – the Cordoma’s. I started buying off the grandfather 52 years ago, and I'm happy to say that we still deal with now the third generation of Cordoma’s, fabulous farmers. You'll see these grapes later in the season coming up, because a lot of these grape growers have now bought right up into far north Queensland. It'll take them a couple of years to get everything up and running, but you'll have these grapes from far earlier in the future."

“The second are these Honey Gold mangoes. We have a grower, believe it or not, in Victoria - who grows these magnificent mangoes.  We are getting to the end of their KPs and the start of their Honey Golds. 

This family, very brave to plant a mango plantation in Victoria is phenomenal.  The interesting thing is these mangoes flower exactly the same time in the Northern Territory and yet here we are 5 months after the NT mangoes, these ones are just now ready to eat. 

Now what that means is they hang on the tree for an extra five months and it develops the flavour like you wouldn't believe!"