Tomato Ripening Tips 🍅👍🏻 It’s getting very close to the end of tomato season here in the UK and mine will be replaced with winter crops in a couple of weeks or so. Yet, many of us will still have plenty of unripe fruit! 👀😳 So here’s a few things you can do to help speed up the ripening process…. Keep removing side shoots - This redirects the plants energy from growing and producing more trusses, then flowers, then fruit! to ripening the fruit it already has. Remove tomatoes that have past t

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Ripening and Handling

When’s a 🍐 Ripe and Ready to Harvest? 🤔Unlike most fruits, Pears don’t actually ripen successfully on the tree. They’re best picked once they’ve reached their full size, but before they begin to ripen. They can be left on the tree to ripen, but will often develop an unpleasant texture.But how do you know when they are ripening? Pears ripen from the inside out, so you can’t easily judge their ripeness by looking at the skin. But an easy way to test if a pear is ripe, is to just gently squeeze n

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