Brisbane Market Report – 13

Fresh produce remains marginally higher priced throughout April with the gap between the end of southern growing seasons and the start of Queensland cropping regions reducing supply.

There are less beans, cauliflower, capsicum and silverbeet on your local fruitshop's shelves making them expensive this week but the bargain hunter can still find respite.

Hard lines, such as onions, potatoes, sweet potato and pumpkin are reasonably priced, along with beetroot, carrot and eggplant, all great vegetables for oven roasting.

Expect to pay firm prices for Asian vegetables, asparagus, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, squash, sweet corn, zucchini and mushrooms.

Get your tomatoes this week before an expected price rise on the horizon as the various growing areas finish their season and the northern cropping regions are yet to harvest.

Expect to pay firm prices for avocados, lettuce, cucumber and eshallots.

Mixed salad leaves are reasonably priced.  Both mint and basil are scarce this week.

Look for great quality, reasonably priced watermelon and rockmelon, along with lemons, limes and bananas.  New season pink lady and royal gala apples are also reasonably priced.

Some new season Queensland imperial mandarins are cheap but be willing to pay the higher price for the best eating fruit. The mandarin crop will improve after the first seasonal chill.

Berries are not at their best quality at this time of year, with expensive prices for strawberries and blueberries and firm pricing on raspberries.

Navel oranges have just hit the shelves but the best price and taste are from valencia.

You will pay firm prices for end-of-season grapes, figs, imported kiwifruit, pears, pineapples, passionfruit and pawpaw, along with the more exotic fruits like persimmon, dragon fruit, custard apples and feijoas.

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