This is the tomato bag. It's filled with the ripe, near ripe, and maybe in several days ripe. We pick when we get to the farm, maybe once a week, grabbing at anything with a slightest blush of pale orange. I say 'we,' but Betsy chides me for breaking my "when ripe" rule. But then, we know there are opportunistic pickers, we know the ground is wet and cool, and we know that there's only so much time.
Into the brown paper bag with the apple. Yes, some of you know it, some do not: the apple produces ethylene gas as it ripens, which hastens the ripening of other fruits. Apples are very high producers of ethylene, while tomatoes are low producers that are highly susceptible to the natural gas. Wa-La. Riper tomatoes faster. If you want your tomatoes to ripen slower, keep them away from other fruit, and out in the open.
This is the tomato bag. It's filled with the ripe, near ripe, and maybe in several days ripe. We pick when we get to the farm, maybe once a week, grabbing at anything with a slightest blush of pale orange. I say 'we,' but Betsy chides me for breaking my "when ripe" rule. But then, we know there are opportunistic pickers, we know the ground is wet and cool, and we know that there's only so much time. 
Into the brown paper bag with the apple. Yes, some of you know it, some do not: the apple produces ethylene gas as it ripens, which hastens the ripening of other fruits. Apples are very high producers of ethylene, while tomatoes are low producers that are highly susceptible to the natural gas. Wa-La. Riper tomatoes faster. If you want your tomatoes to ripen slower, keep them away from other fruit, and out in the open.
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