What's in season: April in Sydney

Posted by kathryn in What's in season

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.

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

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