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Roy Martin:
Hey Roy, nice to meet you.
We too put all kitchen scraps in the compost pile. Its fun for us to see whats going to come up who knows where. We will have potatoes pop up in the flower beds from the peelings, tomatoes here and there, a huge pumpkin plant once. Onions too. I noticed some cabbage at the edge of the pile the other day. Anyway, its fun stuff that doesn't cost anything. :D
I just thought of something else about pineapples. Cut the green top off the pineapple,peel back several layers of leafs from the bottom until you have enough stalk to put in soil. Use a good potting mix. Put it in a pot and a few weeks it will take root. Re pot as it grows. One plant produces several pineapples. Its a beautiful plant. Eat one of these vine ripened baby's and you will never buy another store bought one. I start mine in the winter and place it by a window. They make beautiful house plants too.
Roy
Roy Coates:
Saladking, I read quite a bit about the ink. From what I understand is that any thing that might be a problem is destroyed in the heat. The compost pile as I described reaches 105-120 f. The whole process is basically bio breakdown caused by bacteria on a micro scale. Kind of like a cow eats grass then leaves a cow pie that we use for compost. Small micro organisms eat the material in the pile and leave micro cow pies. Arsenic in the ground water here is more of a concern.
Roy Coates:
Roy M,
Nice to meet you too. I am going to plant me a pinapple and see what happens. Even if the only work out this year as houseplant cause this is a late start. I had never thought of even trying that here in Michigan
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Roy Martin:
Roy, the reason for keeping the pineapple in a pot is it might take a couple of years for it to bear fruit.Just take it in for the winter and place by a window but not where it will be cold below 65 degrees or it will stop growing. Its a beautiful plant to watch grow.
Roy
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