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Kununurra will have its own supply of locally grown pineapples this year. Hospital orderly and exotic fruit grower Glen Haynes has a big crop of pineapples coming on and some of them are truly monstrous. The one (pictured) weighed in at 4.6 kilograms or 10 pounds on the old scale and is .58 of a metre in circumference. Although it looked green on the outside, inside was fully ripe and exceptionally sweet, as a taste test proved. Glen currently has 3000 pineapples growing on his Kestrel Road property. He is specialising in two varieties - Queensland smoothes and sugar pines. |
Both are very palatable. He has also been working hard on expanding his production of dragon fruit and now has 1200 square metres set up on a trellis system. The area also serves as a pineapple growing area with both plants being fed by drip irrigation. Glen has already established a Perth market for the dragon fruit. He is also continuing his experiments with other exotic fruits and berries including sapodilla and miracle berries. Why are they called miracle berries? |
Well, you chew the skin of the berry and spit out the fruit. Then for the next few hours, everything you eat tastes exceptionally sweet. Normally bland fruits suddenly become taste treats. Kununurra people will be able to grow their own pineapples using stock raised by Glen. He will retail them through The Garden Place on Ivanhoe Road. To obtain Glen's pineapples, give him a call on 9168 1069. |