Some Odds and Ends

  I took this picture this morning.  It’s really easy to see how someone could interpret this as a flying saucer–the disc is near perfect!

 

 

 

 

 

     Call it Pineapple Envy, call it what you will, but there is no way I’m  going to let Don Ray go unchallenged in the pineapple growing field!  Taken this morning, we will harvest this beauty for lunch.  It’s probably the variety Smooth Cayenne, which is the most popular commercial variety; the crown was taken from a commercial pineapple.

 Pineapples are easy to grow here.  We have a number out in the yard, but they won’t be ready until next year.  They’re bromiliads, for those who know about the family.  Look below the fruit itself and you’ll see new shoots or suckers–can’t tell which right now–growing from the stem, I think.  After we cut the pineapple, I’ll just let the little plants grow on the stem, and then when they’re the right size, leave one, cut the others off, plant them, and let the first one grow on the stem.  Rather rapid way of getting a lot of new pineapple plants.