Posted by kathryn in Uncategorized

After last month’s heavy rains and high prices, the supply of vegies is starting to normalise.

Cabbage, beans, silverbeet, spinach, beetroot are all coming down in price and supplies are much more plentiful.

More apple varieties are coming into season. Fujis, my favourites, are particularly good at the moment.

The Australian orange season is starting up again and I’ve seen the first mandarins of the year.

Fruits currently in season

• Avocadoes: Shepherds are in season
• Apples: Granny Smiths, Red Delicious, Fujis, Jonathons and Golden Delicious are all in season
• Bananas: plentiful and cheap
• Custard apples
• Figs: still good and reasonably priced
• Fuji fruit & persimmons
• Grapes
• Limes
• Mandarins: it’s still a bit early for this citrus fruit, but they’ll be getting better over the month
• Nashi pears
• Oranges: Australian Valencias are in season
• Passionfruit
• Pears: Packham, Sensation and Bosc are all good
• Plums
• Pomegranates: Australian pomegranates are now in season
• Rhubarb: still a bit weedy but will improve over the month
• Rockmelons

Vegetables currently in season

• Beans: particularly cheap at the moment
• Beetroot: coming down in price
• Brocolli
• Brocollini
• Brussels sprouts: beautiful at the moment
• Cabbage: I’ve been buying gorgeous Savoy cabbages
• Chillies
• Cucumber
• Eggplant: slightly up on last month’s prices and they’re getting bigger, but still good quality
• Fennel: quite expensive and small, but good quality
• Mushrooms: my local store has been stocking wondrous forest mushrooms for the last week
• Potatoes: new season Sebagos and Dutch Cream are available
• Pumpkin: particularly Kent (Jap) and Butternut
• Silverbeet
• Snowpeas
• Spinach
• Sweet potato
• Sweetcorn
• Sugar snap peas
• Zucchini

Photograph by Scandblue under the terms of a creative commons license.

07 April, 2008