Grow your own Pineapple!

When Valerie is not writing her stories and poems she loves gardening and growing fresh fruit and vegetables
in her allotment. She also grows bonsai trees and has set up a bonsai society in Kent where she lives
and also in St Lucia.

Why don’t you try and grow your own pineapple?

Buy a pineapple and cut off the top which sprouts spiky green leaves. 
Put the head in a pot of water and keep it indoors and it will start to grow roots.
When the roots appear plant the pineapple head in a pot of compost.
You need to keep it warm in winter but it can live outside or inside in the summer.

Don’t forget to water it and talk to it.

Try telling it one of your stories or poems and see if it helps it to grow!