Agnes by Tony Cochran for January 09, 2023

if only physics was that easy

Agnes is being smart to plan on keeping the pineapples from wandering off or wandering around. You don’t want free range pineapples.

Wrong time of the year, Agnes. One can’t even get tomato cages at WalMart now.

I’m changing my, “Plant your corn early” tip to pineapple.

I don’t know what she planted, but it’s winter, nothing is going to grow. I did find the following information about pineapples: Unlike most fruits, pineapples are not grown from seeds. Common commercial varieties of pineapples are “self-incompatible,” meaning that the plants’ pollen cannot fertilize members of the same variety. So, unless different varieties are grown next to one another and flower simultaneously, the plant will produce a seedless fruit that develops without fertilization. When removed, the crown of the pineapple fruit contains small roots. If it’s planted into the ground (or a pot), a new fruit-producing plant will grow. Additionally, the plant’s “suckers” (side shoots that grow in between the leaves of the main stem) and slips (tiny plantlets that grow out from the base of the pineapple fruit) can produce new plants when replanted. Originally published in Live Science.

She got her pineapple seeds from Jack, of beanstalk fame. They should do well

I insist that both my pineapples and my tomatoes be cage-free.

Sure hope the snow bunnies don’t eat up her lovely crop.

These two are so Lucy and Ethel. ❤️

Trying for the Lamarckian form of mutation, Agness?