31/01/2025
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲
🍓🍊𝗙𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁
🍎The Mango season is finished, but the new apple and pear season is starting up:
New season Royal Gala have arrived!
🍐Clapps pears are done, but Williams are replacing them. Prices should come down over the next few weeks.
🍍In tropicals, large Panama passionfruit, small topless pineapples and papaya are still amazing value. A flash of bananas is bringing prices down, but this is likely to be short-lived.
🍈It’s also peak melon season: rockmelons from Hay have started – probably the best growing region in Australia because rockmelons love the arid climate of inland NSW. Dino melons are continuing another week, and to boot: seedless watermelons are still under $1.50 a kilo.
🍑Apricots are finished, but the rest of the stone fruit category is brilliant value – especially plums, cherries and nectarines. Seedless grapes are at their lowest price this season, but berries are still doing it tough: supply remains tight and prices high.
🍆🥦𝗩𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀
🥑Among the vegetables, Reeds have finished, Shepards are still a week away, and yet Hass prices have eased – below $3 now: hardly cheap, but better than last week.
Beans, snow peas and sugar snap are a little cheaper than last week, but corn remains tight as both Coles and Woolworths are keeping it on special and are chasing any available stock.
🥦George Portelli has loads of small green cabbages – we sold nearly 1000 last week, we suspect they were shared with hamsters and guinea pigs – but red cabbages are tight. Most other brassicas – from broccoli to kale – are good value.
🥒Cucumbers and capsicums are coming down in price, tomatoes are still cheap and Charlie Vella’s continental eggplant, zucchini and J*P pumpkins are well-supplied and priced, whilst Simon Chong is reporting that most leafy greens have survived the heat, except for rocket. By contrast, shallots are super cheap.
🥗Lettuces are well supplied, especially George Portelli’s Baby Gem lettuce at 85c. Looks like Salad Days are Here Again.
