Dates
Dates are one of the oldest fruits cultivated. Dates are the fruit grown on Date Palms in heavy clusters under the leaf cover. The fruit can be eaten fresh when in season or dried which is readily available. Although primarily…
Cumquat
Cumquats are a small orange coloured citrus fruit with a sweet, yet tangy flavour. They are in season from February to June. Cumquats can be eaten whole, including the peel, unlike other citrus fruits. The fruit has orange like segments…
Fennel
Fennel can be eaten raw or cooked. It works well shaved into fresh salads, or braised in a thick sauce or roasted and served with vegies and grains. The best time to use fennel is between March and August.
Kale
Kale or leaf cabbage is a group of vegetable cultivars within the plant species Brassica oleracea. They have green or purple leaves, in which the central leaves do not form a head. This super green is packed to the max…
Passionfruit
Spherical capsule, 5 cm in diameter. Hard outer shell, slightly wrinkled with purple or yellow skin. Translucent yellow flesh, jelly like and watery. Aromatic and sweet flavour. Many smooth, small, black, edible seeds. All passionfruit plants are perennial climbers furnished…
Mango
Most fresh mangoes are eaten around the world every day than any other fruit. They vary in colour, with some vividly coloured red and yellow and some in dull green. Mangoes are distinctive with their juicy and sweet-spicy flavour. Mangoes…
Pear
Same family as the apple, general structure is the same except that the shape is different. A green/yellow fruit with a rounded base and a narrowing neck. Russeting may occur on the skin (brown speckles). The cuticle and waxy external…
Strawberries
Strawberries are actually not berries but rather an “aggregate fruit”, forming from a flower that has many ovaries. This allows strawberries to be quite complex but a delicious summer snack. The heart shape of the fruit clearly implies that it…
Blueberry
Firm, blue, slightly acid berry. 75-150mm in diameter frosted. Dusted look called the ‘bloom’. The blueberry is a shrub varying from 0.5 to 7.5m in height and may be deciduous or evergreen. It is a shallow rooted plant. Flowers are…
Peaches
A peach is a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and pinkish-yellow skin that can be eaten raw, made into desserts or added to salads. With fuzziness serving as its external texture, internally, the flesh is soft and sweet…
Thyme
Perennial herbs native to Europe, northern Africa and Asia. There are a number of thyme species in cultivation. Thyme has a peppery flavour. Common thyme T. vulgaris is the most used culinary herb, used extensively in Mediterranean and French cooking.…
Tarragon
A member of the wormwood family, tarragon is a perennial herb native to Europe and North America. Sold as dried leaves or fresh branches. Leaves are glossy green, lance-shaped up to 8 cm long. Spicy flavour like aniseed. French tarragon…