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How to grow celery, tomatoes, ginger and pineapples from kitchen scraps

Don't discard pineapple crowns; plant them!

Photo credit: Justine Damiano | Don't discard pineapple crowns; plant them!

Jessica Damiano

Jessica Damiano, Newsday columnist Jessica Damiano

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It's the dead of winter and there's nothing that can be grown outside, so naturally this is the time of year when I get a little bored.

I flip through the garden catalogs that are arriving daily, highlighter in hand, and dog ear the corners. Who am I kidding? There isn't even enough space for another blade of grass in my garden, but, yes, I'll order the new Tuff Stuff reblooming mountain hydrangea....

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