You could always just plant some of it. The planting instructions are
pretty easy.
1. Cut some down where it is unwanted.
2. Throw it on the ground where you want it to grow. New growth will
start in the spring.
Thats it. It's actually a lot harder to get rid of. I would imagine
that the hardier cold weather varieties are slower growing, but
that's just a guess.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Mikey Sklar <sklarm-yahoo@...>
wrote:
>
> I ask permission before taking it from other people's property.
>
> You only want the paddles not the brightly colored fruit. I look
for
> big thick green ones as I want a high moisture content.
>
> They have been easy for me to harvest year round. Since you are in
> northern New Mexico and I am in southern we have 20 deg
temperature
> difference.
>
> The juice will preserve with lime. Make sure you get your prickly
mix
> to a beautiful light green color to guarantee preservation.
>
> -Mikey
> http://greenacre-hotsprings.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:14 AM, JUDITH WILLIAMS wrote:
>
> > Is there somewhere I could harvest prickly pears? Just go out
with
> > my truck and load it up? Is it a seaonal thing? Can the juice be
> > made and preserved somehow? WE have p pears up here but they are
> > very small.
>
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