Garden2TableTV Episode 14 ~ Planting Prickly Pear Cactus! [subscribe -- free!]

If you enjoy this episode, please like & share with friends who would appreciate. I’d be so grateful! Please comment with your location, and let us know your prickly pear planting tips and tricks -- and favorite recipes. This is a learning and growing experience for all, so please chime in -- we'd absolutely love to hear from you!

Best wishes, Catherine : )

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[janbarnard]

South Africa, Planted approx 50 Pads, 3 different varieties about a year ago. Waiting patiently.

[halimhadjameur]

North Africa here great fencing idea just like I hoped . Thanks for sharing

[PeachySoju]

im from new jersey and i never knew we have cactus but i recetntly learned we do have prickly pear! ive never seen one and i dont think a lot of people here know they exist here.

i went to the beach the other day and saw a wild one! i took some pads, got cactus soil, and am now trying to propagate them. (of course i was naive and grabbed it with my bare hands and placed it in my pocket...ya big mistake lol. its been weeks n i still feel and find little spines every now and then in me.)

This video was amazing ur so sweet and knowledgable <3

[rodneyhall]

I'm here in Oklahoma and I was mowing them over and than I saw how good they looked when they put yellow flowers on now I'm putting rocks 🪨 around them to protect them from me

[nelliecastillo]

thank you. i planted mine the same way. cut and plant i don’t wait. i just harvested fresh ones yesterday, cleaned, cooked and scrambled w eggs this morning. I added bone meal to base and mine are very green and plump 😅

[francocastillo]

H town in Texas we eat them in nopal green blender with spinach and green apple al little bit of lemon in the morning before you eat any thing we eat them and can it too for winter time when they don’t put out we do canning with vinegar and water salt onions and garlic they are good for a year I witch I had all that that you have we do it raw salad with lemon and Tajín it is good try it thanks

[TanyaM-Lova]

My neighbourhood here in Phoenix, AZ has so many bushes of these . I finally picked some fallen off leaves and will try to propagate. Thank you for tips :)

[JabulileChiliza-mk]

Wow that's great. I'm using this plant with aloe vara, coconut oil and mineral oil to make tissue oil . Thank so much for sharing

[prm]

I just moved to San Antonio, Texas. I was able to get some nopales from my aunt's 90 year old friend. These nopales are from her friend's grandmother. So these propagated plants are from plants in the 1800s, I love that!!! I will be potting them up today. My aunt does not want cactus in her garden so into pots they go until I have my own place.
I love eating them cubed and cooked with some onion and eggs.

[texasRoofDoctor]

I have one now that started from one pad i found on the street in my neighborhood. Now it has 21 pads. The trick is to plant it in the ground so that it has room to build roots. I plant mine near the fence so that i can throw a tarp over them if we get a freeze. Sometimes i get sentimental and put a heater under the tarp if we get a serious freeze.

[tomscott]

I like how you blow off the pure evil glochids. I'd rather get stuck 3 times with a full sized thorn than getting _one_ glochid buried in my skin. 😂
I just started eating these things in 2023. I have a friend who, to me, is Mr. Survivalist and introduced me to them. I've tasted about 5 species. Looks like you have what I call "reds" and which taste like persimmons, but are about 3 times sweeter and are like candy--too sweet for me. We have another species here that has much thinner paddles and produces my second-favorite watermelon-flavored "yellows." But my favorite pear--and perhaps now my favorite fruit of all--is one of 3 species of native "purples." This variety has the perfect amount of juiciness, sweetness, and "purpleness" and the seeds are smaller and less prevalent. My mom has a species in Florida (different from what we have here) that she propagated from one paddle to another plant. It has grown *_30 paddles in less than 2 years_* and is setting 50+ fruit this its second full year, which is surprising with all the rainfall there! I thought sure it would be much too tropical, but the soil there is like sugar. I'm going to bring a paddle from a yellow and my favorite purple next trip to plant them and hopefully have the trifecta there 😊
Very Best Regards,
Tom Scott
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[medardnhungwa]

thank you. l'm watching from tanzania

[purpledancerbmw]

Love her gloves! In Aruba the fences are everywhere!

[cornelioguzman]

Beautiful learning video
Btw, beautiful blouse.

[darlenetomes]

I Loved your talk and would love to get some pads

[flatflyeroz]

Originally South African, now an Australian. We grew up with them. Over her in Oz they are declared an invasive plant. I did manage to get my hands on a few pads and these are now proudly growing in my garden. I am waiting for my first fruits. Love your channel

[guybartlett]

We're on the coast in Guerrero Mexico, im planting a native forest with cactus, Thanks for the info, beautiful and so are the cactus! Ja ja ja subbed

[garygilliam]

Yes I planted some beside my greenhouse this pass summer in south Carolina

[FeralFeminine]

This is fantastic info! I want to plant them in my yard in El Paso!

[Maxaliticalcom]

I am in Central Texas area killeen and temple. I like your video I was thinking of harvesting some and I had to know how to do it and you were very well in your presentation👍💯