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September - Fruit & Veg with Jamie McDonald Fruit Apples - Granny Smith, Gala, Golden Delicious, Fuji, Pink Lady and Sundowner Avocado - Very good Hass Bananas - Good quality - Lady Fingers good Strawberries - Very good QLD - Sharpe Family excellent - Good price Blueberries - Good Blackberries - None Raspberries - OK Custard apples - Finish soon Kiwi - Both Gold and Green Mandarins - Good Imperials, Murcott and small seedless Alfourer Mango - Northern Territory, Kensington Pride- Not bad. Mangosteen - Finished Melons - Good NT Watermelon and North QLD Honeydew - Rockmelon average at present. Oranges - Fantastic local navels. Blood Oranges - Excellent Passionfruit - Lovely and sweet Panama Paw Paw and Papaya - Both good Pears - Packham, Nashi, Bosc, Josephine and Honey all good Pineapples - Plenty of Bethonga again - good flavour. Roughleaf just started also. Plums - Nothing Pomegranate - Finished - Imported soon Quince - Finished Rhubarb - Fantastic - Local. Herb and Leaf Herbs - All good Rocket - Nice local bunches Lettuce - All good- Good Cos and Iceberg. Great Victorian Treviso. Local Radicchio and Butter poor heart. Vegetables All baby veg good Asparagus - Imported - expensive Jerusalem Artichokes - Good QLD and local Globe Artichokes - Excellent VIC now - some local too. Beans - Good - small hand picked Broad Beans - Very good local. Snake Beans - NT only Beetroot - Good large and baby Broccoli - Very good Broccolini - Good flavour Capsicums - Pricey Cauliflower - Very good. Celery - Good Celeriac - Good heads- mid season Chestnuts - Very good easy peel - Finish soon. Chillies - All good Corn - QLD only Cucumber - Good - some Qukes Eggplant - Good QLD Fennel - Both large and small excellent Leeks - Good - not woody. QLD baby on again. Mushrooms - All good Peas - Good - sweet Potatoes - Good Desiree, Dutch Cream, Sebago, Kipfler, Royal Blue & Purple Congo Pumpkin - Very good Jap and Butternut. Tomatoes - Mostly OK -Johnny's Love Bites have the best flavour Zucchini - Good QLD now Zucchini Flowers - Soon
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