Balanced pruning formulas, favoring vegetative growth to ensure crop ripening, helped growers exceed minimum brix standards in most growing seasons.
Columbus took cucumbers and melons to Haiti, where the first crop ripened in 1494.
When the pollen-bearing wasps leave a fig tree, the fruit crop ripens quickly, providing a rich feast that attracts a host of mammals and birds.
Suckers and divisions of the rhizome are used as planting material; the first crop ripens within 10 to 15 months, and thereafter fruit production is more or less continuous.
The counting began on Passover as each household brought a sheaf of barley to the Temple, for the barley crop ripened before wheat.
As our crop ripens in the fall, we host apple tastings for friends that, in our minds, rival anything offered by the wineries of California.
Owner Kaz Hata's crop ripened later than usual this year, but there are enough peaches, plums and apricots on his trees to supply flocks of hungry sparrows, as well as Hata's farm-stand customers.
(Tapan, married, age 24, Azamgarh) When the crop ripens, many women come to harvest the crop.
Crops ripen earlier and rot more frequently than they did 10 years ago.
It's always a thin time before crops ripen, but with this winter's coffee harvest down 50% or more on normal, for the second year running, hunger, malnutrition and debt are new curses for hundreds of thousands.
