Anyone ever use sage brush to make FPJ? How about prickly pear pads?
I’ve used prickly pear fruit as an FFJ, worked pretty good IME.
Well this Arizona boy thanks you for that input! It’s (prickly pear) basically a weed out here!
That’s good to hear. I definitely plan to make some from the fruits once they’re in season. I’m starting to wonder if sage brush grows to slow to be a good fpj
anybody have any thoughts on using passionfruit, either the freshly growing vines or the fruits in an fpj or ffj? my mother has a whole twenty foot trellis of it that grows extremely vigorously.
i’m pretty dang new to knf so i’m definitely learning as i go.
If you are handy with a pair of chopsticks, I find that the easiest way to gather the ones that drop without getting pricked.
Yucca is also useful and pretty plentiful around you I’m sure.
Not to mention delicious pan fried with some honey on top!
I suppose there could be a yucca or two in my neck of the, um…woods. Are the leaves useful to? I’ve been seeing a lot about using the roots.
Yeah the leaves are high in saponins too, but mostly the root.
We got a lot of cacti in my neck of the woods will have to give this a try never though about that👊
Gonna have to try the yucca soon. They get a little bigger up here.
Did processing the root turn out to be as easy as you thought? I’m gonna have to take a walk and find one that I can uproot without too much trouble.
What ended up working best was peeling the root, then grating it up with a microplane. I let that dry out and sifted it through a 120 micron sieve. That powder is what I would add to my irrigation water.