fruit ripeness Quotes

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

and the bananas are overdone.

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

Ripe avocados should be soft, not squishy, and you should be able to flick the little stem off easily.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

My problem, I try to teach my kids to eat healthy food. But you get a cantaloupe, and you don't know when it's going to come of age. You have no idea - that period between when it's like, hard as a rock to when it's smushy inside, is about ten minutes.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.