Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box
Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box
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Dave's Market Picks Fruit and Veg Box will be ever changing due to current market availability. You'll get the best balance of value and quality in this perfectly selected offering of the market's very best.
WHAT'S IN THE BOX THIS WEEK?
5 Plum Imperfect Each
Pick of the Week - Lebanese Cucumber
“My pick this week is Lebanese cucumbers. The most commonly produced vegetable in the world. Annual global production now exceeds 60 million tonnes. We normally promote these in the spring after winter which is always dear for this line. However, this year, we are seeing new crop superb product in the height of summer.
Here in Australia, this veg hits its peak for taste and quality in the springtime. They are grown in glasshouses all over the country and become more and more popular every year. The old-fashioned green cucumber that my generation grew up with is very close to being a thing of the past. To get the combination of this quality at this price in mid-summer is not usual. A lot of smaller growers no longer can compete with the major private equity backed massive farms on tomatoes and are now turning their attention to other lines such as these.
So this week - a fantastic vegetable that is great quality, and a great price that is high in antioxidants and vitamins A, C, and K.”
- David Harris
Dave's Market Update
In Veg
“Another good week for vegetables this week. Cucumbers in particular are great value. I can’t remember the last time Teles and Lebs cucumbers were so cheap at this time, the prices are more akin to the spring flush each year than mid-summer.
After months of being scarce, cup mushrooms have plunged in price, its bargain time at HFM for these. Red caps are easing back, and we have a flush of zucchini flowers in the NSW shops this week.
In Fruit
As autumn approaches, we start to change our fruit eating habits. This week, we see better areas for new season apples commencing their harvest. The numbers this season are so great that they won’t really be any dearer at this stage. However, anything that falls short of top quality will be virtually unsaleable - so look forward to a year of fantastic apples at reasonable prices.
Pears continue to be very good and very reasonable. Our attention is now also turning to grapes. Again, quality is driving sales. Some of the traditional varieties are struggling, which is very tough on the farmers who have persisted growing these. The newer varieties, particularly in whites, are far sweeter, crispier and dearer! I personally would not buy the older whites except maybe the old-fashioned Sultanas which I still love, it’s an old people’s grape now!
Figs are great as long as they are ripe (figs don’t ripen after they are picked, so if they are hard when you buy them that’s how they will still be in a weeks’ time!).
New season dates are now in store and are terrific eating. Plums just get better and better. There are so many varieties that I find it hard to know what to recommend. This week, our imperfect line is unbelievably cheap. I will start to recommend different varieties each week after this.”
-David Harris
*The Box pictured is for illustration purposes and may contain different/varying products due to seasonal variations & current market availability.
