“This time of the year, early March, is always difficult for avocados. The new season north Queensland Shepards are underway, though as is the case often a fair proportion of the fruit is immature and tastes like a glass of water, not a beautiful piece of fruit. The old season Hass avos from WA on the other hand are magnificent to eat but tricky to manage. We are sticking with the Hass at this stage, however, please don’t expect to hang on to them for more than two or three days.

As always, March is the peak month for rockmelons from down south. Great flavour and fantastic prices. The sweet little natural sultana grapes that we promoted last week are still available, albeit at a slightly higher price this week.

Figs are absolutely at their peak. They go with cereal in the morning, salads at lunch, to cook in some evening meals or just to snack on. Finally, always in March for stone fruit, we turn our attention to plums. Anything on the larger side is still expensive, however if you cast your mind to our imperfect range, you will find great eating smaller fruit at a very attractive price.

Aussie pomegranates are just around the corner so look forward to the new season fruit in the next fortnight or so coming from NSW.”