On 04/26/2013 07:12 AM, Opple0pad wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:02:43 -0700, Todd > wrote:
>
>> On 04/19/2013 10:24 PM, Opple0pad wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:35:22 -0700, Todd > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can't find the "Real Thing" in the store. Where do you get yours?
>>>>
>>>> -T
>>>
>>> In the vegetable section in any grocery, at farmer's markets, in my
>>> own back yard.
>>>
>>
>> You have better stores than I do.
>>
>> Questions: on your home grown cactus, do you only eat the fruit?
>> Or do you eat the leaves too? Do the fruit have thorns as well?
>> And, what do they taste like?
>>
>> -T
>>
>
>
> I grow prickly pear. Thorns on both the leaves and the fruit, but
> when ripe the thorns are easily scraped off the fruit. The fruit is a
> nice sweet flavor. But it really should be fresh and ripe and cool.
>
> If you want your prickly pear to grow tall, just cut notches in the
> top edges and new leaves will sprout from there.
>

Thank you!

Do you eat the leaves as well?