How to Grow Pineapple in Your Garden – Having a garden is one great thing that make our house looks beautiful. It didn’t just beautify the house and make it attractive, it is also a place that helps you ease your burden whenever we need a space to cool off.
Pineapple is an incredibly delicious, healthy tropical fruit. It’s packed with nutrients, antioxidants, and other helpful compounds, such as enzymes that can protect against inflammation and disease. It’s commonly eaten baked, grilled, or freshly cut.
Are you a lover of fruits? Or a fan of eating pineapples? Then I urge you to stop buying them but instead grow and have it many beside you.
Growing a pineapple is one of the most easiest thing that one can do by themselves. You do not have to be a special person or a farmer to grow a pineapple in your garden.
Before I proceed to the steps and processes of growing a pineapple in your garden, let’s briefly look at the advantages of eating pineapple or drinking a pineapple juice.
Health Benefits of Eating Pineapples
Fresh, stir-fried, blended, or roasted, pineapple works well in numerous dishes. You can find it canned, fresh, dehydrated, or frozen in most stores year-round.
Listed below are some of the health benefits of eating pineapple.
- It is loaded with nutrients
- It contains disease-fighting antioxidants
- It aid digestion
- It reduce your risk of cancer
- It helps to boost immunity and suppress inflammation
- It helps to ease symptoms of arthritis
- It helps to speed recovery after surgery or strenuous exercise
- It is easy to add to your diet
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How to grow pineapple in your garden
Not only is growing pineapples ridiculously easy. Growing pineapple plants is possible just about anywhere in the world.
Here are the processes of growing pineapple fast in your garden
- Buy a complete fresh pineapple
- Cut the top of the pineapple you want to plant.
- Remove all the remaining fruit, bottom leaves, and suckers on the crown. (It’s important to remove the fruit because it will rot and cause growing problems, like stem rot).
- Plant the crown in a small hole in your pot or garden. (It usually takes about six to eight weeks for root formation).
- Ensure your pineapple plant gets at least six hours of sunlight to maintain a healthy production.
- Water your pineapples well when newly started to help roots develop.
- After roots have established, water your pineapple plant in the morning every few days.
- when it’s rainy, do not water (In cooler times, water once a week). Avoid over-watering as much as possible.
Pineapples are easy to harvest and easy to store. And the crown can be planted to flower again, or kept in a pot as a houseplant.
Add it to your favorite food when it’s ripe or freeze it in a plastic bag or container for later.