We can stand by and watch the crops ripen and grow.

The farmers know that normally their crops of barley and wheat will ripen.

Their spirits quiet, they prevent diseases and cause the yearly crops to ripen.

Nearly two months must yet elapse before the new crop would ripen.

On the lower terraces, the fields were hues of gold and deep red where early crops ripened.

Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened.

I think I have said that their crops this year were magnificent and just ripening to harvest.

We ought to have let the crops ripen, die, and return to the special soils that had nourished them.

Columbus took cucumbers and melons to Haiti, where the first crop ripened in 1494.

Sometimes seed is started indoors ahead of time just to be sure the crop ripens in time for Halloween.