What's in season: May in Sydney
Posted by kathryn in What's in season
Cold days and heavy rain – feels like we’ve skipped autumn and are heading straight into winter this year. Despite this prices have come down in the last couple of weeks and there are some good bargains around.
Fruit:
- Apples: Pink Ladies and Bonza apples are being picked at the moment, so they’re the freshest available
- Avocado: Hass are coming into season this month
- Bananas: good quality and super-cheap
- Custard apples
- Figs: going out of season this month, which is reflected in prices
- Fuji fruit
- Grapes: I’ve been enjoing crimson reds, but Thomson whites are also in season
- Kiwi gold: the first ever Australian crop hits the shops this month
- Limes: amazingly cheap at the moment
- Mandarins: Imperials are particularly good
- Nashi pears
- Oranges: Australian Navels are coming into season this month
- Pears: Bosc, Packham, Sensation, Corella and Josephine all in season
- Persimmon
- Plums: still good quality
- Pomegranate
- Quinces
- Rhubarb
Vegetables
- Beans
- Beetroot
- Broccoli: particularly good value at the moment
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Cauliflower: really cheap at the moment
- Celeriac
- Celery
- Chestnuts
- Chillies
- Eggplant
- Fennel
- Ginger: beautiful fresh ginger at the moment
- Leeks: although they’re still quite pricey
- Parsnips: coming into season this month
- Potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Sweet potato: cheap and good quality
- Sweetcorn
- Zucchini: good quality and cheap
Fennel photograph by Enoch Ross under the terms of a creative commons license.
01 May, 2008
Comments
You guys are so lucky to have such an abundance of fresh produce available, even as you head into winter! Never heard of custard apples or fuji fruit—now I’m curious. (And hope those kiwis are great).
Apparently a custard apple is also called a sugar-apple. It’s a fruit that’s really widely available, very cheap. But to be honest I don’t know anyone that actually eats them. Any readers that can prove me wrong?
Fujis are fabulous. I think they’re a type of persimmon and you eat them when they’re super-super ripe. I hardly ever buy them, but love them when I do.
And yes, we are lucky here. I have to remind myself of that more often. Even in the depths of winter we get a wide range of fruit and veg.
Hi Kathryn, that list of fruits is absolutely mouth watering. It’s late here but I’m looking forward to my morning smoothie already :-) ~ James
Great to read this list – I can plan my shopping before I go! The list reads so deliciously. Grapes here are wonderful at the moment. In my experience we do better grapes than Sydney. Once when I was living in Sydney and was visiting family in Adelaide, I could not eat enough of them – the flavour was overwhelmingly sweet and luscious.
BTW, a little present for you in my latest .
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