FREE: Prickly Pear Pad pieces to start your own Prickly pear.

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Prickly Pear Pad pieces to start your own Prickly Pear Cactus.

I would like to share my Prickly Pear Cacti to anyone who wants one. I started mine from a slice of Prickly Pear Pad and several others took pieces to try it for themselves. (Okay so I took three pieces. They told me to let the raw surface where they had cut it with a knife to LET IT DRY UNTIL IT FEELS HARD LIKE WOOD. Then you can plant it. You can just stick that dried end into the ground or half of the piece in the ground. and tamp down the direct dirt around the piece ...AND THEN WAIT...wait...wait...believe it or not it doesn't take long. It took mine somewhere around 3 weeks to get a little tiny pad and man then that little pad was on the move...it grew so quickly that I was surprised..
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Prickly pear cactus has been a staple of the Mexican and Central American diet for thousands of years. In parts of the U.S. it has been gaining popularity as an exotic, gourmet and healthy addition to one's diet. The prickly pear plant has three different edible sections: the pad of the cactus (nopal), which can be treated like a vegetable, the petals of the flowers, which can be added to salads, and the pear (tuna), which can be treated like a fruit. They grow wild throughout the American southwest, down to South America and up to Canada. The ones you may find at a local store or farmers market will surely originate from a commercial nopal farm.
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I have eaten the pink/red part of the fruit and a lot of people make jams and jelly out it. I just sliced it raw and it was GOOOD!
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