CSB - David Stewart - Fruit and vege

Weekly catch-up with our friendly green grocer 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the sports field to the shearing shed. It's the
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport. What
can I do for you? There we go David the
friendly fruiter. It joins us this morning on the show.
Morning David a nippy one winter shorts again. You know
I put them away a week or two ago. We

(00:21):
were sort of lulled into a false sense of security. Really, Ah,
spring summers on the way and suddenly snow through the
South Island, North Island, that where there's going to have
quide an effect on fruit and vegetable vegetables mainly, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes it is, you know, things like spinach, iceberg, lettuce,
stuff like that. The asparagus especially is trying to grow.
It's going to get out of there. I don't like
being the ground. I want to get out and get
eaten now. But yes it is, Brian. It's going to
be very difficult for the next few days and it's
very heavy frost and very heavy snow around the countryside.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Down south. There was a lot of snow last week
as well, so again a big effect down that way.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, you know there's delays and transport and northwards things
like the trucks coming into Tottle yesterday. We're two hours
late and part it was kinds were closed, but the
other one was down the line. It was very difficult
to drive. Yes, yes, it does have effects. It's very difficult,
you know. One minute, as you just said, we're in summer,
and next thing that's wondering.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That kind of happens this time of year. Every year,
really doesn't happen. September has arrived, time for spring, lovely, lovely,
and then winter comes back we get casual beats us
up all over again. So does it mean that prices
have risen a wee bit.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, it's actually not too bad. I'm interesting to see
what happens next week, you know, with what has been
damage and what's missed out. But at the moment, there's
reasonable supplies as it has been for quite some time. Broccoli, cauliflower,
as I just said, the asparagus is waiting near. The
prices are down a little bit. You'll pay five to
six max for months, which is good. It's good five
dollars a good price. Yeah, and no one's grizzling about
that one. There's plenty of salary leaks, you know. It's

(01:49):
just those leafy, green, leafy vegetables which will be affected,
you know. And it's right across the country to it's
not just one growing area, all right. So you know,
we salads, you know, iceberg lettus. We'll see what happens here.
The cucumbers are getting more plentiful, caps comes the same.
Tomatoes will slowly come down another couple of weeks, I think, folks,
but they will get there. It's not too bad. At
the moment. Pumpkins price moving up. Supplies are going down.

(02:13):
You know, we've been through a lot because the price
has been cheap, so they'll be to see what happens
here for some beautiful, great big pumpkins from mister bosstock
down Hawk's Bay at the moment, all magnificent, huge thing.
It's massive, beautiful, you know. One grizzled about that tasting.
I mean the fruit side to apples, the cheaper apples
are all disappearing, and the supplies are getting lower down
to September now they've been the cool store for six months.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Through out of the season.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Really well, that's right, yeah, kiwifruit the same, excuse me,
Kiwi fruit the same. But you know, good things like
blueberries are coming on local strawberry Ossie strawberries and New
Zealand one's two and prices are reasonable there, so you
know we're getting there. There's a bit of winter and
in a bit of summer too. You can mix it
up for the weekend. Funny time of year, really, isn't it,
think about it? Yeah, just confusing. Yes, we're going to

(02:56):
have a month of this. You know, I've been daylight
saving a couple of weeks time. And October's there and
things be better. You'll be happy.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, we'll get to somewhere and we'll be all very
very happy having lots of salads. That's the one, alrighty okay,
So there we go. That's the situation on the fruit
and veggie markets around the country. David Stewart, the Friendly
Fruit do It. Thank you for dropping by.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Thank you, Bryan