CSB - David Stewart - Fruit & Veg

Weekly fruit and veg update with our friendly green grocer. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on
Gold Sport. Hold on you, gentlemen, you today, what can
I do for you?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go the man that knows all about fruit
and vigies. They're his best friends, David Stewart. David the
fruit are a morning David.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
And winning right best mates. Well they ah, you love
your fruit.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
They love you back.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I do like fruit and vegetables and this stuff. So
what are you doing? I said that beautiful look at them?
What's wrong with it? You talk to them, don't you?
Of course you do.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It should have been a market gardener. I don't think
this week going out to the fields and.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
You know this is right. Yeah, that's a lovely, lovely
business to be and Ryan sometimes.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah absolutely all right. Well at the moment it's a
great business. And the winners overall are the customers, aren't they.
The prices are unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Last week, you know, the warning goes out. We had
a couple of frost green vengie is going to go short,
you we said last week when that lasted two days.
There's product everywhere, big supplies of all green vegies, everything
right across the board. Prices are ridiculously low. You know
this price we were doing twenty years ago. Yeah, and
people aren't really shopping properly. They're not really going out
and shopping very courtious with their money still and looks

(01:06):
like it's going to be for quite some time. But yeah,
the weather is mild in a nineteen twenty degree and
the weather is crazy, isn't it. So I've like Pooky
got a lot of rain, the boys that's struggling big
spuds up there for the next couple of days. But yeah,
you know, you say, wow, what's going on here? The
only things are expensive about tomatoes, which is normal, capskins
and cucomers.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Absolutely, But okay, we're getting experiencing wet and sort of
mild weather in the North Island. South Island's had some
pretty cold cold weathers that effect of much down there.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It has you know, it's a little bit up and down.
Then there's a bit of stuff going down from the
North Island, which isn't too bad helping things out. But
prices right across the country very reasonable on everything really quickly, honest. Yeah,
it's very good.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
On the fruit, whatever you want on the fruit side
of things, seasonal fruit.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
What have we got oh, apple is still good. Supplies here,
Kiwi fruit green and gold Mandarin's not too bad.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
The rain and gismon the other week upset a little bit,
but that ain't lasted a few days, so go back
to normal again. Imported oranges coming in a very cheap
New Zealand oranges starting this week, but they'll take a
couple of weeks to get to be tasting. Okay, we
always touch on the imported fruits.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So I've got grapes coming in from California.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Grape no not yet, coming in two or two weeks.
Times the mid July bananas, just be careful. They're a
little bit short. Supply will irregular supplies the next couple
of weeks, so that's gonna be interesting one there. But
it was banana's people's favorite, top of the list or
every day, well the banana boat comes in loaded up
with bananas. People love them. Bananas and broccoli. That's the

(02:30):
two top popular ones. Pieces of fruit every every day. Broccoli,
big heads of broccoli. What do you pay for a
big head of broccoli?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Really, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Don't start you know right across well, every all those
green celery leaks, cabbages, cauliflowers. You know, silver beat everything
cheap ass.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
We touch on the pumpkins a couple of weeks, lots
and lots and lots of pumpkins.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Good coumera pumpkins, onions, buds, yeah, carrots, all that good
winter stuff is all very good buying you. You don't
need a lot of money, focus just going twenty bucks
to cover everything. I would think we're only a couple
of days off. The shortest day. The weather is guaranteed
to get colder. Will that have a big effect? Obviously guarantee.
I don't know about that. In July spring hard to believe. Well,

(03:16):
I don't know. The weather is very very irregular, to
say the least. You know, it's very difficult for everybody.
In a one minute's fine yesterday the weather forecast for
totaling here, no no rain. What does I do is
pouring with rain at five o'clock in the morning to
call me out right, what the hell's going on here?
You just don't know what's going to happen. It's like,
in a way, it's like spring with it.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
It is.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, very I think we ended up at eighteen degrees
here yesterday or something. You know, it's crazy stuff but yes,
but anyways, it's very good music. Just come by your vegies.
It's all you gotta do.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Who are that's good news from David the Fruiter.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Have a good one, Thank you, Brian. David.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
You're joining us here on gold Sport the Country Sport Breakfast.
I mean we're only two days on the shortest day,
and then you know, the days just slowly get longer
and longer and longer than befo we know, and it'll
be springing the day it'll be summer again.