Pineapple – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Pineapple Pirate

It didn’t get the first two pineapples, but there are more still maturing in the patch. I have my fingers crossed and am holding my breath; I wouldn’t want the scrappy little varmint to get a whiff of the pineapple that I just ate. #racoon #varmint #pineapplepirate #pineapple

Yellow Fellow

After a two-year wait, we are harvesting pineapples again! I noticed this mellow, yellow fellow in the garden and picked it and placed it in the screened-in lanai to finish ripening—away from the racoons. They like pineapples almost as well as we do, but they can find something else to eat, thank you very much!Continue reading “Yellow Fellow”

Tasty Buds

Colorful petals protrude from this budding pineapple. It is well on its way to becoming a sweet, tasty treat. #pineapple #tasty #backyardbeauty

Prenatal Pineapple

After enduring bitter cold under cloth covers warmed by electric lights, the pineapple plants have started to bloom and pineapples will follow in due time. Sweet dreams! #pineapple #sweetdreams

Pineapple Patch

The heads of the pineapples we ate over the past several days are now planted in the ground in our backyard along with more mature plants that produced the fruit that we enjoyed. It will take two years for the youngsters to bear fruit, but the older plants will likely provide more sweet treats nextContinue reading “Pineapple Patch”

Off With Their Heads!

In this setting those words refer to something sweet, not something grim. The “heads” of the pineapples have been removed so that the fruit can be cut into edible chunks, and the head will be planted to grow into new plants that will one day produce more delicious fruit whose heads will be removed toContinue reading “Off With Their Heads!”

Covering Our Assets

We returned from our trip to Colorado to find that two of our seven pineapples had ripened and had been nibbled to nubbins by neighborhood racoons. Fortunately, they wait until the fruit is at its peak of sweet ripeness. Three of the remaining pineapples are still green, but we picked these just a little earlyContinue reading “Covering Our Assets”

Pubertal Pineapple

They no longer look infantile, but they are not fully developed; in human terms they are pubertal. The developing pineapples in our backyard have the awkward adolescent appearance of a fruit that will soon mature into full adulthood. Sweet, I can hardly wait! #pineapple #pubertal #adolescence

Hawaiian Eye

On return to Florida, I discovered this budding pineapple bloom winking at me like an eye from one of our plants. It is a descendant of pineapples obtained from Hawaii, and we look forward to seeing more in the other plants soon. #pineapple #bloom #hawaiian #winking

Pineapple Lonely

The pineapple patch was pruned and replanted two years ago, and as expected this year we have a pineapple, but only on one plant. They usually start producing within two years of planting, as this one did. However, the eleven others didn’t bother this year, and we don’t know why. We will keep good companyContinue reading “Pineapple Lonely”