Omelet wrote:
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"Ophelia" wrote:

Billy wrote:
If you can't beat them, join them and do as I do with my dandelions,
I eat them. Prickly pears are free food and can double as a primer,
if you decide to whitewash your house ;O). The fruit is supposed
to taste like water melon (or was that chicken? No, I'm sure it is
watermelon:O).

Hello I am new here I followed a friend in

I have eaten a lot of prickly pears when I lived in Malta. Yes,
they are a bit like melon but have biggish seeds in them and they
are delicious. If you touch the outer skin, the fine hairs will
penetrate into your skin and they are sore. The people with carts
that sold them house to house in Malta, used to cut the skin, turn
them inside out and offer them, to allow the customer to take out
the fruit themselves. The skin on their hands were hard.

best

Ophelia UK

Welcome O'! :-)

Thanks Om))



This is a good list.

Mom taught me to torch cactus fruit to get rid of the tiny spines.

That is a good idea They don't grow in UK though

I was very interested in the 'no dig' gardening.



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