Summer vegetables galore at Bathgate Farm

At last the summer crops are in full production. Plenty of new lines to try at the market.

Tomatoes and other fruit

• Heirloom varieties including beefsteaks – rouge de mamande, brandywine, black krim; Verona orange and ananas noir.
• Salad varieties: money maker, juanne flamme, tigerella, zebras.
• multi-coloured large cherry sized varieties,
• Chillies:  jalapeno
• Peppers: corno de rosso;
• golden nugget squash;
• eggplants – several types including Lebanese, ping tung long, Listada.
• Pickling cucumbers

Large colourful cherry tomatoes.

Pickling cucumbers.

Golden nugget and patty pan squash.

Potatoes:

New season early harvest potatoes.

• Norland – pink skinned, round, white flesh, waxy. Ideal for boiling, salads, casseroles;
• Delaware – white skin and flesh. Newly dug so more waxy than usual.

Stems and roots:

• pickling size brown onion;
• spring onions;
• beetroot – large sized standard, golden, white and candy stripe and mangel wurzels;
• radish

Greens:

• Perpetual spinach, silver beet and ruby chard;
• Tuscan kale (cavolo nero);
• Bitter green salad mix;
• Radicchio, frisee and scarole.

Asian Greens:

• pak choy, green and white stem;
• choy sum;
• Kailan;
• kang kong;
• amaranth.

All available on Saturday from 8 am to 12 noon at Albany Farmers Market, Collie Street, Albany. Western Australia.