Take a fresh look at supermarket produce

AM I the only person to believe that nearly all supermarket fruit and flowers are rubbish?

A few of these are no doubt originally of good quality but they seen to me to have been in store for a while and by the time we get them in the store, bought for looks, they are awful.

Good apples, ice cold and tasteless, peaches either still hard or already bruised and going bad, all polished up to shine on the shelves! Melons like bricks, most oranges of very poor quality, thick skinned and largely unripe.

Plants and flowers look fine with plenty of buds on, which never open out. The list is endless and people all rush to buy them.

At 82-years-old, I’ve seen a lot of food, largely rationed during the war, but at least it was good food.

When my own garden fruit was not available and as now that I’m virtually housebound, I find a orchard online and buy their fruit, a box of good apples grown somewhere in England and they are beautiful and well worth waiting for.

A good old friend recently gave me a potted miniature rose along with a flowering begonia, both bought from a large well-known store.

The rose buds did not open and the begonia had one set of flowers and both were dead within two weeks!

My advice is for people to look for such items at your local and decent garden centre.