Though remove the spines from cactus diggings with a knife lick , it ’s not as foolproof as simply burning them off .
A twosome of nights ago Allen the Beekeeper was light up up the grill so I decide it would be a good metre to have him try the nopale cactus I ’ve been growing .
Here ’s the video evidence :
As I state in the telecasting , all the tablet cactus ( Opuntia spp . ) are edible . Many of them are quite easy to grow in Florida as well . The variety you see in the video lack any enceinte thorn , which makes it easy to process … once you get rid of the numberless tiny spines that will make your life execrable if you brush against the plant . This type is n’t the typical burry Pyrus communis cactus that makes a decent - sized comestible yield . Instead , it tends to bloom and will very little behind .
These prickly pear have edible yield and pads :
The inkpad are a caboodle tough than the variety we grill , however , and must be harvested when quite untried .
take out the spines from cactus inkpad really is easy on the grill . You do n’t even have to turn them around over a fire like Allen does in the video . Just flip them right on on the grill to singe the piffling spines off .
If you ’re remove the spur from the declamatory cactus pads sometimes sell in the grocery store store , you may have to trim back them out as well .
Throwing water system on the cactus to remove the thorn from cactus launch pad does not work . Do n’t inconvenience .
The feeling of nopale cactus is somewhat tart with a taste somewhere between green beans and dark-green Vanessa Bell capsicum pepper plant . It ’s quite decorous , though too mucilaginous in grain for my wife . She does like it incactus chili , however , since the acidulousness of the tomato plant juice gets disembarrass of the sliminess of nopale . Eat some cactus chili and you ’ll think the chop pieces are unripened peppers .
Finally , it struck me yesterday that I should have included nopale cactus as a crop in my bookTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening . Oh well – maybe it ’ll end up in the “ revise and boom ” version I ’m bound to write a few years from now .
