ripen

Object

• grape: However, lack of rain is not enough as of course you need sunshine and warmth to ripen grapes.
• tomato: The list of genetically improved plants also includes potatoes, flax, rice, sugar beet, wheat, chicory and faster ripening tomatoes.
• cheese: As a result most ripened cheeses, like Cheddar and Swiss, contain about 95 % less lactose than whole milk.
• fruit: Net or cage ripening fruits to protect them from birds.
• grain: The sun comes out to play on the ripening grain.
• corn: In the autumn, flocks of sparrows feed on ripening split corn.

Preposition: on

• vine: Sleepy villages relax in the sun and plump grapes ripen on the vine.
• tree: What I love is leaving an odd banana to ripen on the trees that the birds can eat.

Preposition: at

time: But over the course of the harvest, these cherries ripen at different times - meaning they have to be tended every day.

Adjective complement

green: Produces small thin walled fruits that ripen green to red.

Modifying Another Word

• slowly: They are culinary pears which are described as being typically hard and gritty and ripen slowly but are long keeping.
• traditionally: Hawes Matured Wensleydale takes on the appearance of a truly traditionally ripened cheese.
• naturally: Because our fruit and vegetables ripen naturally, we have a very short time to get them to you in their peak condition.
• quickly: Winter barley Most forward crops on lighter land are ripening very quickly; Siberia may be ready for combining in 2 weeks.
• fully: Well basically they are fully ripened plums which have been dried to remove most of the water.
• properly: But the majority will ripen properly if you put them somewhere dry.

Preposition: in

• autumn: The berries of Butcher's Broom, like small, bright scarlet peas ripen in autumn.
• sun: Each year, these potted trees are placed outside for the summer, where the fruits ripen in the sun.
• summer: Once the winter wheat matures and ripens in early summer, it must be harvested quickly and the seedbed prepared to plant the corn.

Preposition: of

fruit: Ripen forces the production of flowers or the ripening of fruit, in a last effort to spread its genes.