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How to Grow Pineapples
By Tom Verde
If you've never had a fresh home grown pineapple, you've never really tasted pineapple. How would you like to eat a sweet juicy pineapple without any trace of acid? When you bring your home grown pineapple inside, your whole house will smell like fresh pineapple. Pineapples are great, they do take a long time to grow, but they need little maintenance, grow in poor or sandy soil and make attractive plants. It's really easy and here's how to do it: If you live in a climate with frost or snow then plant your pineapple in a pot so you can move it inside when it gets cold. - First you'll need a fresh pineapple from the grocery, what you need is the top (called the crown), that's how you'll start your own plant. You can often ask the produce section to give you their leftover crowns from prepared fruit. -Second, remove the extra fruit and a few leaves from the bottom of the crown. -Third now you will need to plant the crown. Fill your pot with potting soil, or find a sunny, well drained area in your yard, a flower bed is a great place. Poke a hole in the soil with your thumb and jam the crown into it far enough so that it stands up straight (2-3 inches). Press the soil down so that it stay upright. -Give the crown and surrounding soil a good soaking, and you're done. After a couple of weeks to a month the crown will be rooted and start to grow. You can give it water every couple of weeks or so, I rarely water mine and rely on summer rain. Now all you have to do is wait for 18 to 24 months for your pineapple to flower. Yes, it does take a long time but it's worth the wait. It's best to plant several plants and stagger the planting times, so you have a steady supply of pineapples. The pineapple is an attractive plant, it's in the bromeliad family, in fact it's the only edible bromeliad. You can find more specifics on growing pineapples, forcing them to flower, etc, by following the attached links. Enjoy your delicious home grown pineapple!
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Contributor's Note
The pineapple photos in this intel were all grown in my yard. Notice the bright yellow color of the outside of the pineapple, and the bright yellow juicy flesh. Not like those pale grocery store pineapples!
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Low Maintenance Container Gardening
 
Home Grown Pineapple From My Yard
My Delicious Home Grown Pineapple
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