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Garden Detective

Jessica Damiano's award-winning garden blog gets to the root of things.

Behold: The $15,000 pineapple!

Not the actual $15,000 pineapple; just a model

Photo credit: Bruce Gilbert

Last month, I showed you how to grow your own pineapple at home. It's a fun and easy — albeit patience-requiring — project. Well, you might want to get crackin' on that, because if recent events in England are any indication of what such a fruit could yield, you could stand to make a tidy sum.

According to the UK newspaper The Sun, 30 tons of horse manure, urine and straw, plus the...

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