Jonagold

The Jonagold is a large to extremely large apple with a red-greenish colour and a striking red bloom.

The light yellow flesh is firm and juicy.  The pleasant sweet-sour taste makes it particularly multi-faceted.  Suitable for use both as an eating apple as well as in cookery.

The Jonagold is available from September until August.

Golden Delicious

The Golden Delicious is a large apple.  Its colour during picking is green at first and evolves to a typical golden-yellow.

The fresh flesh of the Golden Delicious is yellow and crisp.  If the apple is stored for longer the flavour becomes sweeter and it gets its typical taste.  Golden Delicious is a good hand apple that also tastes nice in apple pie and fruit salad.

Golden Delicious is available from September until July.

Jonagored

The Jonagored is a red brother of the Jonagold.  It is a juicy and crisp apple with a natural warm-red colour.

The flesh of the Jonagored is cream-coloured with a strong and fresh smell, which is emphasized by the special relation beweet sweet and sour.  In short, Jonagored is an excellent, well digestible eating apple.

The Jonagored is available from September until July.

Reinders Golden

The Reinders Golden is a firm, large apple.  It is slightly smoother than a normal Golden.  The initial green colour evolves to a typical golden-yellow when it is picked.

The flesh of the Reinders Golden is yellow and crisp.  If the apple is stored for longer, it becomes sweeter and gets a typical flavour.  Reinders Golden is a good hand apple that also tastes nice in apple pie and fruit salad.

Reinders Golden is available from October until August.

Kanzi

Kanzi is a shiny, bright-red apple with a refined flavour and a crunchy bite.

Its fruit is fresh, juicy and tart.

Kanzi is available from October until June.

Greenstar

Greenstar is a large to medium-sized apple with attractive smooth shape and a shine deep green skin.

This apple has a very good acid flavour, high sugar content and it is packed with vitamin C.  Greenstar is fresh and its crunchiness, which is incredibly long lasting, is without equal.  The flesh is very firm and juicy and does not discolour after cutting, making Greenstar highly suitable for dishes or as a garnish or for salads.

Greenstar is available from October until July.

Granny Smith

The Granny Smith is a rather small green apple.

The Granny Smith has quite a sour taste and very firm flesh.  Because of this, it has quite a long shelf life.

Granny Smith is available form October until July.

Elstar

The Elstar is a beautiful yellow-red apple with a handy size.  It was developed from a cross-fertilisation between Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie.

The Elstar has a wonderful light sweet smell and is an ideal hand apple.

The Elstar is available from September until May.

Boskoop

A “Schone van Boskoop” (a nice-looking Boskoop) is a robust, brownish-red apple with a rough skin.

The flesh of a Boskoop is sour and firm, which is why it is the best kitchen apple.  Especially used as a cooking apple.

The Boskoop is available from September until July.

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Attractive round fruit, ranging in size form small to medium.  Orange-yellow, enhanced with a light pinkish-red bloom.

Its light yellow flesh is aromatic and extremely juicy.  A delicious dessert apple.

Cox’s Orange Pippin is available from September until April.

Conference

The Conference is a slender pear.  It is small to medium-sized.  The fruit is green-brown and becomes light yellow when ripened.  The flesh is white but also turns more yellow when the pear ripens.

The Conference is very fine, sweet and juicy.  That is why it is the ideal table pear.

The Conference is available from September until July.

Doyenné du Comice

The Doyenné du Comice is a large fruit with a short stalk and a yellow-green colour with a brown-red bloom.  The flesh is white.

This extremely juicy pear has a very sweet taste.  All these characteristics make it the queen of pears.  Doyenné du Comice is therefore an ideal dessert pear.

The Doyenne du Comice is available from September until March.

Durondeau

When it is picked the Durondeau has a rough dark-green skin with brown-red flesh.  As it ripens, the skin gets a warm golden colour.  The flesh is white.

A Durondeau has a typical sour taste.  When it is picked in September this pear is only meant for use in the kitchen.  From October it is an excellent dessert pear.

The Durondeau is available from September until January.

Beurré Alexander Lucas

Beurré Alexander Lucas is a large, even pear.  The pear is green, and turns yellow later.

The pear is quite juicy and moderately sweet.  The flesh is coarse and grainy.

Sweet Sensation

Sweet Sensation is a conically shaped, robust pear with a beautiful red striped bloom.

The white flesh is extremely juicy, sweet and aromatic.  Very delicious pear.

Strawberries

Strawberries are shiny red, sound and dry and they have a fresh green crown. Strawberries are juicy, have an orange colour inside and have a nice flavour and rather a strong aroma.  They contain a large amount of vitamins (A, B and C) and minerals (calcium, phosphor, sodium and patassium).  They are also low in calories.

Strawberries are sorted by quality and size.

The most important cultivars are:

ELSANTA is the standard cultivar used in Belgium.  Elsanta has a red conic shape with a small calyx.  The Elsanta is a very tasty strawberry, and one of the best-performing cultivars as regards shelf life, taste and firmness.

SONATA has an orange-red conic shape with a small calyx.  Its fruit is rather sweet with great flavour.  The fruit is easily bruised.  Sonata’s crops are a little later than Elsanta.

FIGARO yield large, big orange-red strawberries with a large calyx.  These strawberries are clearly larger than Elsanta and Sonata strawberries.  The plants sometimes bear hollow fruit.  Its fruit is firm.

DARSELECT is a cultivar with a shape that can be compared to that of Elsanta, but is somewhat more elongated.  The calyx is more voluminous but tends to wither rapidly when grown on poles.  The fruit itself tends to darken and tarnish rapidly under warm conditions and is more readily bruised than Elsanta, but less than Sonata.  The Darselect strawberries have a good, sweet flavour.

CLERY is a very attractive, relative long conical fruit with a beautiful red colour.  Relative firm texture and pleasant taste.

Thanks to modern cultivation techniques, strawberries are available from March until December.

Cherries

Cherries are rather large to very large stone fruits.  Depending on the kind, they vary in colour from light pink to dark red.

There are various types of cherries:

Hedelfinger / Brown Bigarreau / White Bigarreau / Regina / Kordia / Summit / Sweetheart / Sylvia / Lapins

Cherries must be juicy with a soft flavour that can vary from sour to sweet.  The proportions between flesh and stone must be favourable and the cherries may not show signs of splits.  Cherries are very rich in fibrous tissue, contain a lot of vitamin C and have a low calorie content.

Cherries are available from June until September.

Berries / currants

Red currant

Blueberries

Blackberries

Raspberries

Plums

Baron

Quality characteristics:

Traditional Belgian beef tomatoes

Multilocular structure

Firm flesh

Full of taste, juicy

Many preparation possibilities

Grading:

+ 57 mm / + 70 mm / + 82 mm / + 92 mm / + 102 mm

Prince

Quality characteristics:

Loose tomatoes with a deep-red colour

Homogeneous fruits

Consistent quality

Long shelf life

Grading:

+ 47 mm / + 57 mm / + 70 mm / + 82 mm

Storage:

It is best to store tomatoes at a temperature of 12 – 16°C.  Therefore, store tomatoes at a cool place, but not in the refrigerator.  Tomatoes are very sensitive to decay because of low temperatures.  A too cold storage also has a baleful influence on the flavour.

Elite

Princess

Prunella

Ministar

Cucumbers

Aubergines

Sweet peppers

Courgettes

Kropsla

Lollo

Eikenbladsla

Veldsla

Cauliflower

Rode en witte kool

Savooikool

Broccoli

Leeks

Chicory

Mushrooms