new delhi if you are thinking of starting a kitchen garden then this is the time the vegetable prices are spiralling out of control because of floods in parts of the country while wholesale dealers maintain that the rise in prices is nominal delhiites who get their daily diet of fruits and vegetables from retailers beg to differ t n raina a resident of alaknanda says newspapers print azadpur mandi rates for vegetables but how is it in public interest when everywhere retailers hike the price especially in south delhi raina cites the instance of tomatoes which cost rs 10 per kg at the mandi and rs 30 in kalkaji market and perhaps much higher in other upmarket localitieschaman singh secretary ghazipur agricultural fruit and vegetable market confirms this saying how thok mein pharak nahi parta hai retail mein pharak parta hai at wholesale markets vegetables rates dont show much of a rise the retailers quote their own priceswith western parts of the country flooded the arrival of trucks with tomatoes and onions from areas like nasik kolhapur and gujarat has been quite irregular say sources in the vegetable mandi which would explain the steep pricesso when the sehgals of tara apartments keep a carefullyplanned weekly budget it all goes for a tossrenu sehgal says obviously we try to keep a check by cutting down on gross shopping earlier we would buy halfakilo of bhindi and not think twice about it but now we come down to probably 300 gms fruits are so frightfully expensive while pear costs rs 35 per kg apples come at rs 50 per kg i have to say that inflation is unfair but then what to doa sentiment echoed by nikita khandelwal we might still be able to scrape through but what about the rickshawallah