Garden2TableTV Episode 14 ~ Planting Prickly Pear Cactus! [subscribe -- free!]
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2022
- Entirely edible!!! Savory leaf-pad salad and mouthwateringly delicious fruit! Enjoy showy banks of flowers, too. Prickly pear cactus ranks among the easiest, most versatile, practical, and drought-tolerant plants to include in your home garden and landscape. It thrives around the world, in so many regions and climates. Whether you wish to plant prickly pear cactus singly (as an accent plant) or en mass as a privacy hedge, I'll show you just how fast and easy it is to plant and propagate! And be sure to also watch my "How to peel prickly pears" episode here: • Garden2TableTV Episode...
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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South Africa, Planted approx 50 Pads, 3 different varieties about a year ago. Waiting patiently.
“NO-pal-IS” salad 🥗 lmao 🤣 I can’t
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.
"Sometimes I get sentimental and put a heater under the tarp if we get a serious freeze" This made me smile.
Cozy Cactus 🌵
Love her gloves! In Aruba the fences are everywhere!
I’m in Nashville. Was able to successfully plant a baby nopal in my front yard. Now it’s time to propagate and use it throughout the entire front of the house!!! Thanks for the tips I was looking for ❤
Freakin' awesome. Also, I don't see a house anywhere close. I'm sure you enjoy the peace, privacy and solitude. No nosey neighbors. Living in the city, this view is my dream.
You're right... it's so awesome so be way out here in nature! This was my dream too, moving out from Los Angeles... took a while but dreams can come true! Set your sights and make it happen! So healthy and peaceful.
Cheers, Catherine
North Africa here great fencing idea just like I hoped . Thanks for sharing
An awesome video! Thanks Catherine!
❤ love this video.
Beautiful cactus I love it. ❤
You are the first one I find that sounds intelligent about this beautiful plant. Thank you for your knowledge!
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 😊
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This is fantastic info! I want to plant them in my yard in El Paso!
So just saw this vid and I live in northern Kentucky just across from Cincinnati. I grow these year round in my front garden planted in the ground but I do mound gravel with a little bit of soil on the ground to plant them in. They THRIVE. This will be the first time I've eaten the fruit so I'll definitely leave a comment on the outcome 😁 they're budding now so I'll have to wait a bit longer.
I love prickly pear, we used to eat them when we went to turkey to visit my family in the rural villages. I bought some a few weeks back and so excited for them to grow this big
I'm in SW Colorado... prickly pear cacti will grow in the mountains as high as 8000 ft.
They are stunning. We are currently outside of San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and these cactus are literally 25 foot trees. I have never seen them like this. They literally have a trunk and right now, they are covered in gorgeous yellow and orangey-red flowers. I also just take a piece and stick it in the ground. It works just fine.
Wow thank you so much for posting this my son brought me a peace of the cactus home for mothers day. However over the years its gotten hug and I wasn't sure how to move it or Transplanted. But after watching your video, I know now thank you so very much.. I also didn't know its eat able!
PS I'm in Northern California
Eight years, I'm 67. Guess I won't see my fence and then someone will knock it down. My other favorite Sega palms. Oh my grow grow grow.
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
This is the most beautiful thing Ive seen today.
Great hedge! The small pads are available fresh year-round in Mexican grocery stores. Probably these are from substantial mother plants that can keep on producing new pads as some are harvested?
Thank you for the tips! Going to plant some pads now in Yucca Valley, CA.
Cheers!
Beautiful woman. And plants. 🌵
Hello. I live in Cañon City Colorado. I have recently bought a Spineless Prickley pear cactus and your video taught me so much. I will propagate my cactus and after watching more of your videos will eat one. Thanks!
what an awesome plant and of course what a wonderful and fairy voice.
I grow Nopal in North Central Victoria, Australia. I have HUNDREDS of plants, some of them are about 10 feet tall. I have an Egyptian lady on one side, and a South American Indian lady on the other side. We ALL LOVE NOPAL!!!
I planted a Nopal Hedge on the "Egyptian" property boundary of my land years before she moved in there, and I told her she was welcome to take the fruit and pads, even propagation stock (branches) from her side of the fence, any time she wanted to. She was so happy, her smile was a delight to see!
I have 20 acres, BTW, so it's going to be a while before the land is all filled up, but as a pioneer species, they can't be beat!
Another great pioneer that I propagate here is Agave americana. I have some mixed Agave and Prickly Pear hedges as well as pure Nopal hedges (and pure Agave hedges) and they all do well. Agave leaf pulp can be fermented into a silage for livestock feed and also the pulp can be boiled to make delicious Agave Syrup and then fermented to make various alcoholic beverages (Tequila, Mescale, Agave Beer).
You can also ferment Tuna (Prickly Pear Fruit) to make Prickly Pear Wine or Vinegar or boil the fruit pulp in twice its weight in sugar to make a cordial. You can also bottle the strained pulp as a jam. All of the above are delicious and well worth the work!
God Bless, and Thank You for your Work!
Those brown hairs are the worst!!!! I grow this in Indiana. It survives the winter and thrives in the spring. Even if the cold causes the pads to split, new growth will grow from the wound. Wonderful, beautiful plant.
Thanks for good info .
Love from India🇮🇳
North Georgia here. Just ordered some pads off ebay. I love to eat this stuff. I hope im able to grow it
I just moved to San Tan Valley, AZ and will be planting my first prickly pear soon :) thank you for the tips and tricks. Those little spines have gotten me several times already 😂
Thank you, from Pleasanton, CA
Thank you so much, I am in Yucca Valley, CA and going to do just what you said to do on my property. Your Prickly Pear hedge is gorgeous!
Thank you for this lovely video. I am in New Zealand, recently moved into a property with a huge prickly pear plant with the most amazing flowers on. Now I know how to make more! Will go look for your videos with what to do with the different parts.
Hi, from Miami!!! We have a very large prickly pear that needs to be moved. Your video was so helpful! we are going to break it up into various plants. Happy we found you. God Bless!
Hey Catherine! Thanks for the awesome video!! My wife and I plan to plant our roots in Las Vegas, Nevada and I am spending my time preparing and learning about the plants that thrive there. Prickly Pear has always had my attention and I can imagine wanting a massive wall of them around our future home one day. The ideas for salad and eating it really strikes my interest as well!!
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
great content, excellent editing. So picturesque. Keep up the fantastic work.
South African here. Thank you for your informative video! We found some prickly pear growing in our garden and now we have big plans for it
❤THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION❤
thank you. l'm watching from tanzania
Great video. Wish I could pick your brain on my prickly pear dilemma!
What a great video. I think I will try to grow some.EDIT: Ive got some and already have 7 tunas growing!
Great information
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
Great video. Very informative. I read quite a bit about this but your video showed me exactly what to do and how to do it. Thank you
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 :)
Yes I planted some beside my greenhouse this pass summer in south Carolina
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 😅
Just subscribed!! I appreciate your content.
I found a pad on the ground on a walk and didn’t realize that there were so many spines! I’m in south east Florida and it’s getting growth in less than 2 weeks! I’m excited for information about growing things that I can eat 😊
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
Beautiful learning video
Btw,beautiful blouse.
New to the cactus game. Where are you? What a beautiful cactus forest!
Hi Gary! Central California -- great climate for cactus! Where are you? Have you planted this type of opuntia yet? Cheers, Catherine
I recently moved to southwest Alabama and prickly pears are growing all over the place here!
Wonderful! It will be interesting to sample the various cultivars/flavors. Let us know if you try them! Cheers, Catherine
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
'Had a HUGE prickly pear cactus in the back yard of our rental. I was late in harvesting the tunas......however they yielded a very tasty prickly pear jam and syrup.... somewhat a cross between watermelon and raspberry 😋. Love your channel!
Angela, do you remember your recipe for the jam and syrup? Would love to know! And I'm so glad you're enjoying the channel. I've been distracted with other work lately but will refocus on this soon! Thanks for the encouragement. : ) Catherine
I live in south africa and just started planting my first couple.
Best wishes from California -- I hope your opuntia flourishes in South Africa!
Cheers, Catherine
I Loved your talk and would love to get some pads
I learn something today.
Wonderful! I'm so glad! Please subscribe, Charmaine... I would love to have you join us -- I promise to post more interesting and educational videos! Best wishes, Catherine
Hello dear, wow absolutely looking fantastic you prickly cactus , but again is absolutely pretty amazing that I never seen ike that before , I absolutely truly enjoy warching to it and thank you for sharing and hope to see you more around , have a good week .
Maya, So nice of you to say so! Your note makes me so happy! I'm working on some new videos to post soon, be sure to subscribe to my UA-cam channel here! Best wishes, Catherine
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
Wow, that is an amazing cactus forest and you are such a great teacher!! Love these videos!! Thank you!!
Glad you like them Planet Preston! I love your channel too! Everyone needs to subscribe to it. So positive, with great family role modeling -- great work, helping make the world a nicer and more thoughtful place!
I grow the more cold hardy varieties of Opuntia in Arkansas. Some I ordered online and some from seed. The fruits aren't as sweet as the ones you grow there but make the best wine and vinegar. Love your videos!
Interesting! Cactus wine and vineyard, amazing!
Your vedio is very educational.
Thanks Charmaine! Much appreciated. -Catherine
Great! I was thinking of using them as a privacy hedge here in Portugal and I'm very happy to hear it's easy to cut and plant them as I've just moved to a new property where theres already some growing 😊
This was so clear and I am now ready to start New information that I will start to use today
Geriello
Hello from Hungary! Opuntia likes to live here too❤️
Hello there Andrea! Wow, so fun to hear from you, all the way from Hungary! I'm glad you have the opuntia there, too. Thanks so much for saying hello, and letting us know. Best wishes, Catherine
That is beautiful I love cactus and it looks so peaceful out there I love it God Bless you and all of your family
Thank you! You too! Thanks for stopping by to say hello. Sending you our best wishes as well! Cheers, Catherine
Good video!
You have totally impressed me with your passion for this incredible plant matching mine and maybe exceeding it. I'm an old hand at this but always keen to learn more, for instance eating the nopales is foreign in my circle and I will explore that, so will watch your other UA-cams. Watching from Melbourne Australia, or as you folks say, "downunder". For what it's worth, your's is the only channel I've subscribed to this morning out of the heaps I've watched. Take care.
Thank you so much Tony, your feedback makes my day! Have a lovely day downunder, and keep on planting! I hope you enjoy the nopales salad as much as some of us do!
You are awesome in the way you give so much information, its the way it should be, you do not leave any uncovered stuff or mysteries behind the proccess. Youre briliant, thanx, subscribed.
Thank you so much for the encouragement! Much appreciated!
Moving to Texas soon,this will perfect for my front yard porch area!
Excellent! Yes it will really thrive there. Sami let us know how it develops and tastes! -Catherine
Hello from El Paso Texas
Hi Grendizer! Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks so much for sharing this. I inherited a few pads and just started planting them in our yard. NC is a wet state, but the PPs seem to love and thrive in the clay of Charlotte. I love their hardiness and simplicity. I've been spreading them around all summer, and look forward to having a PP forest in our back yard like you do.
Interesting to learn they are thriving in your wet state. Good to know. Thanks for sharing, and best wishes with your PP forest! :))) -Catherine
Dont do it. They become like weeds after a while. They attract a pest that when you pop it, it give off like a reddish maroon dye, & they also attract a whitish pest that looks like white fluffy spider webs.
I saw them growing in Portland, Or when I lived there. They might not get as big as hers but they are so adaptable you should be able to get them going.
About to start growing this species of cactus here at my home in Las Vegas and can't wait for the fruit to form!
Best wishes Jake! Please keep us posted!
-Catherine
Same! I just moved to Vegas and I can’t wait to plant one!
Got some here in missouri on the side of my road. You bet I transplanted this.
Wow, interesting, I will bring one pad and plant it inside our compound, in my area (Tigray region, northern Ethiopia) only the cactus fruits are edible but not the pads, I can't wait to prepare and taste the cactus pad soon. thanks dear!
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👍💯
Thanks a lot for sharing.
My pleasure, Rachael. Thanks so much for watching and letting me know. Cheers, Catherine
Thank you for such an informative and well-filmed piece on nopals. I'm taking your advice and planting some with my son today. Have a great day from the Lake Hughes Ca area. I'm a new fan on your channel.
Thanks so much Franky! So glad it's helpful. And love knowing where you're watching from -- thank you! Posting a new video today. :) -Catherine
My pleasure Franky! Thanks so much for watching. I hope you and your son enjoyed a great day of planting. I hope you didn't need to pull too many spines out of each other afterward! But that's a good reason to plant via the buddy system. ;) Thanks for saying hello. I'm so glad you're watching and enjoying! Cheers, Catherine : )
If you have time to answer of course... What variety are you growing? How can people tell what variety is growing? Are any poisonous? Gosh, I have so many questions, and you seem to be a reliable source😊
Mine are the fairly standard variety opuntia ficus-indica. I haven’t heard of any poisonous prickly pear cactus varieties (of course be sure to check with a local expert if you’ve got something really unusual). Some are tastier than others (fruit and the pads).
Great informative
Thanks Larry!
Ordered 3 large pads and planting them here in Hawaii. Originally my plan was to grow this for my baby sulcata tortoise but I’m probably going to make salads with this too. Thanks for the info ❤
That is awesome! Keep us posted. Interesting idea for the tortoise.. .that makes sense... that the tortoise might like cacti. I hope you enjoy it too!
The people who told you to let them dry until there is a scar at the cut surface are correct. This forces the plant to focus on the rooting faster. You were not on a schedule, but a farmer is. Also, you orient the pad surfaces facing East and West to maximize solar exposure. The wine made from the prickly pear is called Cochle. I told a Lebanese friend that one could make vodka from the pads provide that they were 27-29 cm long because this is where the sap has the high sugar content. He and his brother-in-law ran with my idea and made Arak, which is a distilled liquor flavored with anise.
My Mexican friend made like a stir fry dish with them, I really liked it. Never actually saw it on a menu anywhere 🤔
@@estebancorral5151 but she is clearly just cutting them off and sticking them in the ground so does it technically matter? Hers look like they are doing just fine and producing fruit and everything so I don't see why you have to wait when this works so well
@@Vgp-rp4iu You obviously have good enough vision. However, you lack the mindset to process what your eyes are indicating. That hodgepodge cactus pads per plant is a detriment. It lacks proper formation. Though a cactus has much stamina, it is not invincible. The lower hanging pads are susceptible to both insect infestation and fungal infection. Your answers is no!
love your cactus 🌵 hedge i have a nopal i’m hispanic lol so
So glad you're growing them too! How can one resist?! : ))))
Thanks for d info ian from jamaica
Iam from jamaica
Nice 👍👍
Thanks! Best wishes, Catherine
Hi. Thank you for this video. Best one on YT!
Thank you so much tbird!
Hi from oklahoma
Nice video
Thank you so much, Di. Much appreciated. Best wishes, Catherine
I would eat all of that in a week.
I'm here again my friend.
I also love Nopales and Prickly Pears.
Try mixing the tender pads...cut them into long slices
and boil them first until soft and then combine them with Sardines.
Ohlala... so yummy.
Try it in your next vlog.
Thanks.
Oh so interesting! Thank you! Love having you along for the ride with us! Thanks for participating!
Thanks you for your information, I like this fruit , and i want to try plant it in our village
@@sulaimanshibli1932 , best of luck! It is a wonderful edible plant!
Rochester minnesota. I use it as natural rodent control keeping rabbits and squirrels away from my gardens. When they get over 2 feet tall I cut the taller pads and replant filling in gaps in my cactus border.
Interesting regarding the rodent control. Do you find they don’t like it, or don’t want to climb it?
@garden2tabletv383 after the first year, they've been avoiding them. It's likely they've never interacted with a cactus b4... it's probably an irritant for them.
Friends, you might also like my 'how-to prepare prickly pear fruit' demo, here's that link: ua-cam.com/video/n4YRi-FFkuo/v-deo.html
How often should you water them to get good growth? Yours looks awesome!
Steven I guess it depends where you are. This area is generally in drought. I watered lightly perhaps every couple weeks for the first couple years to get some fast growth. Now I don’t water them.
What a beautiful wall of Opuntia you have created! You inspired me to plant my own wall of Prickly Pears and it was awesome knowing that I could just ploop them into the ground without the usual process of callousing, rooting, then hardening off before planting out. they've been out there in the sand for a couple months now and seemed to have rooted just fine! I'm really looking forward to all of the growth they will put out this coming Spring!
I do have a question I'd like to ask you. Do you water that work of art during the winter when it's cold out? Temps are hitting the low 40s at night here and wasn't sure if I should keep watering them. They're still just single pads at this point and should have a decent little plume of roots going at this point.
Thank you for sharing your creation and the awesome Opuntia propagation shortcut! 🌞🌈🌻🌵
MJ, I'm not watering mine at all in the winter. And now that it's grown, I've stopped watering really at all in the summer too. This summer I soaked down one section that seemed a bit limp, just on one day, and it bounced right back. The water helps with fast growth (in a dry area), otherwise you can really dial it back. Even in the beginning I didn't water during the winter, though. I'm in California.
just planted 35 pads from my daughters cactus .in texs here have miles of Prickley pear ,but Hers are thornless .
thornless sounds pretty great!!
Thank you for this Video We are planting these in our Backyard among Golden Crown Cactus just for a Desert Look we have about (10)-(12) Some came in the mail Leaking we will Try to see if they will Grow Thank you
Hi Kevin! Yay! Did the ones ordered in the mail look good when they arrived? I'm so curious how they pack them to ship them (vis a vis the spines). Cheers, Catherine
i love me some nopales lol
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Hi Roxy!
@@garden2tabletv383 may I ask what state you are growing these in? If I had to guess, I'd say Montana? I'm in southern Michigan and love prickly pear cactus, I have 2 varieties and want to plant it outside but don't want to lose them in the winter