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How would you like to have your own piece of the tropics growing in your home, garden or greenhouse. Why not have a go at growing that most useful of the bromeliads yourself, the Pineapple.

List of Needs

Top cut off section of a pineapple that includes the green leaves

Potting mix

Some extra sand or small gravel

Medium sized pot

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It does not matter whether you put your kitchen scraps in the compost or the bin, did you know that you could grow many of your favourite fruit or vegetables from those scraps. Indeed, unless your compost is very well matured you will find stray veggie seedlings may appear wherever you deposit the compost.

Take for instance those potato peelings, if it is a fairly thick section of peel with an eye (shoot), then you can often Read more…