Time to harvest the prickly pear

Nice crop of tunas this year:

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Plump and juicy:

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Will prepare the jelly tomorrow. Stay tuned :)

Will do

Got me all curious, I must be a lil too soggy for those not farmiliar with them. What they taste like??

Went ahead and processed the first batch. De-thorned, cleaned, mashed, and filtered. Pure juice right here:

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Nice yield from half a bucket. I'll probably pick another half bucket tomorrow and call it good. You really can't tell from the picture, but the juice is the prettiest maroon :)

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Originally Posted by Cappy

Got me all curious, I must be a lil too soggy for those not farmiliar with them. What they taste like??

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A different kind of fruit, those from the West know what I'm talking about. Very good. From what I understand, the folks from California tear these up - and grow some very nice ones as well.

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Originally Posted by Tracker123

Went ahead and processed the first batch. De-thorned, cleaned, mashed, and filtered. Pure juice right here:

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Nice yield from half a bucket. I'll probably pick another half bucket tomorrow and call it good. You really can't tell from the picture, but the juice is the prettiest maroon :)

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Not sure the words prettiest and maroon go together. Now if'n they sqeezed out purple that might work!!

Looks good Randy! Can't wait to try some of that jelly!

Another batch of prickly pear jelly done:

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Very good. Meanwhile bottled up some more cellos:

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These are small bottles. Ya'll will have a chance to taste at the gathering. If you like, I'll have a bottle for everyone to take home. :)

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