On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:36:47 -0700, Todd > wrote:

>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?


Yes.