OK... Here's the deal.
I worked, sweated, toiled for 3 summers at the Dole Pineapple Factory when I was in high school. To this day eating a fresh pineapple will make my hairline break out in a psychosomatic line of sweat.
Art's friend, Morris often gives us fresh pineapples from his huge terrace garden and advises Art to plant the crowns if it's particularly sweet.
I guess it's fine for when the grandkids come and can have the novel experience of harvesting a pineapple. Otherwise, we've just given the pineapples away.
I can see having one or two plants, maybe even three.
But please.... isn't this a little ridiculous?
I worked, sweated, toiled for 3 summers at the Dole Pineapple Factory when I was in high school. To this day eating a fresh pineapple will make my hairline break out in a psychosomatic line of sweat.
Art's friend, Morris often gives us fresh pineapples from his huge terrace garden and advises Art to plant the crowns if it's particularly sweet.
I can see having one or two plants, maybe even three.
But please.... isn't this a little ridiculous?
For those of us who never toiled and sweated in a Dole Pineapple Factory, we could never have enough plants:-)
ReplyDeleteYou used to work at the canning factory. Now you may be working on the plantation! (But there's nothing like a fresh, sweet pineapple.) Looks like Art is in competition with your Mom's orchids.
ReplyDeleteLinda in Kansas
No kidding! Then again, mom is pretty much giving up on the orchids because the bulbuls keep biting off the buds.
DeleteAhaha happy harvesting.
ReplyDeleteYe shall reap what ye sow. :)
ReplyDeleteAh you worked under the giant pineapple water tower! I can still smell that sweet warm smell on the air over Nimitz HWY :)
ReplyDeleteI can imagine a bad experience does stick with us for life.
ReplyDeleteha! you are back at the dole plant!
ReplyDeleteYou are going to need a little stand -- Fresh Pineapple.
ReplyDeleteI packed green beans when I was a teen. Lately, I've been eating them again. Yes, that's a little much if you don't eat them. LOL
ReplyDeleteWell, for those like me that don't have the luxury of having a garden (I am a condo dweller) too much is never enough, besides those ALL look healthy and flourishing !! Need a recipe for pineapple upside down cake ?? ;-} !!
ReplyDeleteToo funny! You know what? I don't mind cooked pineapple or pineapple ice cream or pineapple cake.
DeleteWish I had a green thumb like you guys.
ReplyDeleteI know we can plant those tops here in NE Ohio, but I never saw one develop into a pineapple....OTH, such a delicious fruit! (But I never worked on a pineapple plantation!)
ReplyDeleteso funny - you have to plant and care for all those unwanteds. i toss them out, no guilt.
ReplyDeleteArt will be eating a lot of pineapples.
ReplyDeleteActually, he doesn't much care for pineapples either because he says it's too acidic for his teeth.
DeleteYour husband and my husband are very similar in their enthusiasm for certain botanical stuff.
ReplyDeleteno such thing as too much pineapples, let alone fresh IN HI. I have made myself sick over them on more than one occasion. LOL
ReplyDeleteHa ha, and when do you plan to open the store and start selling them? Those would make nice house warming gifts. Just a pretty bow and you are in business.
ReplyDeleteOh I love pineapple when it comes out of the field. Store bought pineapple just isn't good at all.
ReplyDeleteIs Art substituting pineapples for the trees he loves and can't have?
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of that way about strawberries, having either picked them or worked in the cannery with them for most of my young life.
Art just loves to plant things. Problem is... he gets so involved with all kinds of things that the plants don't get tended much. His bonsai have gone by the wayside after buying all his bonsai instruments. I think I'd have preferred working in a strawberry cannery. For one thing, the fruit is lighter to handle.
DeleteOh, that's not too many plants! You remind me of my first visit to Hawaii many years ago -- early 1970s. While it was sad because my SIL had passed away after a heroic battle against ovarian cancer, then interred at spectacular Punchbowl, we coped some of the time by visiting different sites. One such was a commercial pineapple farm -- might well have been Dole. I just recall that I'd never tasted such delicious pineapple as coming from the mainland I had always had canned pineapple. Since then, periodically I have planted crowns when I learned that could be done. Much to my surprise they grew easily but something always caused me to not be able to keep them -- we moved, or I had to be away so they didn't get watered, etc. This prompts me to want to try again. Is there anything special I should do besides watering them to get a really good pineapple?
ReplyDeleteArt just plants the pineapple, but mom is the one who has been tending them. She waters them daily and fertilizes them with 10-10-10, I think. Or I believe she uses the Miracle Grow. I'll have to ask her later.
DeleteOh, what fun! Makes me smile to think of all those pineapples growing in pots and then becoming gifts. I didn't know you worked in a pineapple factory, Kay. :-)
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