CSB - David Stewart - Fruit and vege

Weekly fruit and vege update. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Holy gentlemen, you today, what can I do for you?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Time to catch up with the friendly fruiter of the
trials and tribulations of a fruiter or running a fruit
and vegie shop.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's not easy, isn't David.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
You know, like I think it was last week we
talked about the mushrooms didn't arrive.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Good morning, Brian. Now it's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
You get up in the morning at four o'clock in
the morning and next thing your phone starts going over
and think, oh my god, what now? Yeah, yeah, last
Saturday morning, you know, just yep, just putting the shoes
on and it goes off and the truck from Palmerston
hasn't arrived, so there's no good produce from now living
in Palmerston Northway and you sit here and say holy
different words, and so you've got to work around there

(00:46):
to take you an hour sort out what are you
going to do there? On the telephone to people trying
to arrange a different product and stuff like that. It's real fun.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
It's like moving a chessboard with chess pieces right on.
Let us is oncoming a bit of do that I
think shifting houses is easier. It probably is. Really well,
there we go, so it's good news anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
When it comes to buying for Begi's at the moment
with summer summer produce.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's very very reasonable by and the tomato one get
into tomatoes, folks, and anywhay from two dollars to three
dollars for tomatoes, it's ridiculous. It's a lot of tomatoes around,
the beautiful tomatoes too. The whole salad thing caps coms,
cucomers let us as advocato is all very very good buying.
You don't need a lot of money at all. And
of course now we've got all the new seasoned greens
coming in local causey it's beans have just started with

(01:25):
mister Bailey down hawks Bay. Not cheap, but that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
The weather's playing into the core hands because horned up.
And also we had a little bit of light drizzle
as well, which is great.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
The rain was great last weekend up north up here.
It's a bit down south to you know, temperatures are
up and down. Those things are looking good. And of
course the potatoes and you got new season spuds coming
out of poking and Jersey Bennies and the Golden Gormets
from down South Island down there and very very nice.
There's some nice choices. You want to move on the
stone fruit now?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, I know you're getting excited about the cherries. The
cherries are good.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Cherries are reasonable too, you know, should buy one killo box.
Any were from twenty five to thirty dollars for a
one killer box, which is good. We're doing four hundred
grams for ten dollars which is very good and very nice.
Cheeries because I told you about my granddaughters eating a
whole cost to me god knows what money. You know
that the stonefruit is looking good. It has improved a
lot of sizes. Good apricots, nectarines, peaches and plums all

(02:15):
looking nice and selling well to below ten dollars a kilo,
which is good. You know at the moment it's all goodson.
And then you're talking berries, yeah, talk berries, blueberries, raspberries,
strawberries and blackberries all good and very very reasonable prices too,
and they're nice, so.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
You can complain.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Really at the moment, would you walk in the veggie
shop and you'll be happy as you do not need
a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
What are some of the things that probably will make
you unhappy? Is the unthing, you know, lovely people, everything's there.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, those seasonal products are the coma and the pumpkin
that you know it's coming to the end of this season,
have all been in storage, so, you know, waiting for
next year and things like that. Pumpkins up. But who's
eating a lot of pumpkin at the moment, you know,
he's not cold and Saladsah, it's good veggies, you knowvocados.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
We said that coming to the end of the sea season.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
No, not the end of the season, just supplies. They
exported a lot and have sold a lot, you know,
but that's okay. They're any reasonable around a dollar fifty
for good avo, you know a dollar to a dollar
fifty is still good buying. Hell, that's cheap, airs man,
but it's good love mavos, that's the one.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Fantastic all right. Well, hopefully all the fruit and produce
will get through today.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It will do, hopefully. The text message just gone off
on my arm, so who knows what that one was about?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Alright, David Stewart the friendly fruit or I have a goodbye David.
Thank you. Brian