Posted by kathryn in Shopping Basket, Fruit, Vegetables and What's in season

The recent heavy rainfall around Australia has been a wonderful for most farmers. Dams are filling, rivers are running again and the big picture is looking good.

However, in the short term, the wet and unusually cold temperatures, mean most produce is growing very slowly. Over the next three to four weeks there will be short supplies and hence rising prices.

In about a month’s time the situation should improve considerably and an increase in available produce will drive prices down. You can track the latest list of seasonal fruit and vegetables in Sydney, by watching the what’s in season category.

Fruit:

• Apples – fuji, pink ladies, gala, granny smiths, lady williams and golden delicious
• Avocadoes – shepherd and hass
• Custard apples
• Dates
• Grapefruit – ruby reds are still beautiful
• Kiwifruit, including kiwi gold
• Lemons
• Limes
• Mandarins – imperials and daisy mandarins are particularly good at the moment, although honey murcotts are coming into their own this month
• Nashi pears
• Oranges – navels are in full swing
• Passionfruit
• Pears – Josephine, buerre bosc, packham, red sensation and corella pears are particularly good
• Persimmons
• Pommelos
• Quinces
• Rhubarb
• Strawberries – from Queensland, so they’re a bit exy, but very, very good
• Tamarillos
• Tangelos

Vegetables:

• Asian greens
• Beans – green, butter, Italian flat, broad and snake
• Beetroot
• Broccoli – good supplies at the moment
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbages – including red, wombok, sugarloaf and green
• Capsicums -a positive from all this rain is that large supplies of red capsicum are available
• Carrots
• Cauliflower – although they have been rain affected in recent weeks
• Celeriac
• Celery
• Chestnuts – although much of this year’s supply has been hit hard by frosts and drought, so supplies are reduced and prices are higher
• Fennel
• Jerusalem artichokes
• Kale – curly kale and cavalo nero
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks
• Okra
• Olives
• Onions
• Parsnips
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin – butternut, Queensland blue and Kent or Japanese
• Silverbeet
• Spinach
• Swedes
• Sweetcorn
• Sweet potatoes
• Turnips
• Witlof
• Zucchini

Information from Sydney Markets, Harris Farm Markets and Lettuce Deliver.

02 July, 2007