Watermelons hit the sweet spot: Australia’s best value fruit and veg for March

‘The hotter it is, the sweeter they get’: at about $1 a kilo this month, watermelon is one of the best value fruit for March. Photograph: Huizeng Hu/Getty Images

The continuing warm weather around the country is keeping vegetables at their peak, but grapes are the produce to watch this March. “Grapes normally start at end of January,” says Frank Napoli, second-generation owner at Napoli’s Quality Fruit Market in Williamstown, Melbourne.

“They’re excellent now. They like the nice warm weather.”