Please don't think I'm joking, this is not a wind up or an early April Fool. Pineapples really are one of the most amazingly easy, reliable and remarkably trouble free plants to get to crop. Honest. I've written about them before but still only a few people seem to have tried them yet. I guess they seem too exotic, or maybe the old boys made it sound all too complicated or hinted one needed a stove house the size of Kew's. Nope pineapples just need to be kept frost free. That's it, no more complicated than citrus, indeed easier.