I have to admit that I had never before seen a pineapple growing - has anyone else in Australian seen one?! To be quite honest I'd never even really thought about it! I thought they grew in a tree or something. But they don't - this is how a pineapple grows (see above). You can either grow them by cutting the top of an existing pineapple, peel away a few of the spiny leaves at the base until you expose some little roots and then pop it in the ground. In about a year it will grow a pineapple on top like the one in the next photo. This one is almost ripe and ready to pick!
You can also grow them from little suckers that develop at the bottom of the plant - you can cut it off and plant it again to grow into a new plant. These ones grow a bit quicker than the others - about 6 - 8 months until you get a pineapple. Today Joseph (that's our gardener Joseph in the other photo) planted about 10 of those sucker plants and also 5 banana tree suckers. So early January we should be loaded with pineapples and bananas! Happy days!
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