Market Update for Tuesday 16 July 2019

By Brett,

In Vegetable and Salad lines;

  • Corn is expensive due to light supply.
  • Most other vegetable and salad lines are good and prices are reasonable.

The best value vegetable and salad items are;

  • Jap and Qld Pumpkin
  • Sweet Potato
  • Chats (small white) and Brushed (dirty) Potatoes
  • Cauliflower
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels Sprouts
  • Zucchini
  • Green Capsicum
  • Lebanese Cucumber
  • Avocados
  • Celery
  • Regular Tomatoes
  • Fennel
  • Asian Vegetables
  • Silverbeet Spinach
  • Hydro Lettuces
  • Wild Rocket, Baby Spinach and Salad Mix

In Fruit;

  • Red Papaya are in season and very good. Pineapples are also good.
  • Rockmelons and Honeydew melons are nice. Watermelons are struggling with the cold so we have stopped them for now.
  • Navel Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Ruby Grapefruit, Tangelos and Imperial Mandarins are all in season and at their best.
  • Gala, Fuji, Jazz, Pink Lady, Red Delicious and Granny Smith Apples are all new season fruit. Store apples covered in the fridge to keep them crisp.
  • Bananas are good and reasonably priced.
  • New Season Packham and Nashi Pears are available and very good.
  • Green Grapes have finished but Red Grapes are still available and nice.
  • New Zealand Kiwifruit and Kiwi Gold are in season and excellent.
  • Queensland Strawberries are at their best. Blueberries are nice again and back on our list.
  • Passionfruit are good and reasonably priced.
  • Quinces have finished.

Other Items,

  • Free Range Eggs are more expensive due to light supply.

Order your home delivered fruit and vegetables before 9pm on Wednesday for delivery to Artarmon, Asquith, Castle Cove, Castlecrag, Chatswood, Chatswood West, East Killara, East Lindfield, Gordon, Gordon East, Gordon West, Hornsby North, Hornsby Heights, Killara, Lindfield, Middle Cove, Mount Colah (up to Yirra Rd) Northbridge, North Willoughby, Pymble (West side), Roseville, Roseville Chase, St Ives (South), Turramurra (West side), West Lindfield, West Pymble and Willoughby on Thursday afternoon or evening.