here's the Tennessee Prickly Pear - it's our only native cactus! you can actually peel and eat these pads like green beans (tho it is tricky avoiding the spines) and the remaining pulp can be turned into sweet syrup. when it flours you can boil the fruiting bodies to make juice!
So i am doing a little experiment with growing veggies from my food scraps. So far I have sprouted and replanted: 2 celery stalks, 1 romaine lettuce, and today I just started these tomato plants.
The top pic is the tomato slice scraps, I covered them in soil after I watered them. The other scraps that I planted sprouted within days, so hopefully these will too!
The bottom is me showing off my awesome new herb drying rack. I ordered it purely for the look, there are definitely better and more useful herb drying racks out there, but this bitch was MACRAME.
This is my first harvest using it. I have peppermint, dill, tiny basil ball, and mint. Here goes nothing!