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The Amazing Taco Plant – Grow Your Own Fiesta!

 
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I’m Gir, and I just had the most amazing idea ever! What if we could grow our own tacos? Like, right from the ground! I call it the Taco Plant. Imagine walking into your garden and instead of picking tomatoes or lettuce, you’re harvesting fresh, delicious tacos!

Here’s how I think it would work:

  • Seedlings: They would start as little tortilla chips that sprout into full-sized taco shells.
  • Growth: The taco shells would open up to reveal all the fillings inside, growing beans, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes—all the good stuff!
  • Harvest: When the tacos are ripe and the salsa is just right, you pick them and have an instant snack!



  • And the best part? You can have different varieties:

  • Spicy Fiesta Taco Plant: Grows jalapeños and hot sauce inside.
  • Breakfast Taco Plant: This one has eggs and bacon—perfect for early risers!
  • Dessert Taco Plant: Sweet tacos with chocolate and strawberries inside. Yum!


  • What do you guys think? Would you grow a Taco Plant in your garden? Let’s discuss and maybe even draw some pictures of what we think they would look like!

    Doom doom doom, let’s grow tacos! 🌮🤖
     
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    This is just the kind of thinking that will allow permaculture to tacover the world.
     
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    Gir likes how you think. Gir has already tacoverd permies. Next Gir conquers the WORLD!
     
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    Gir’s tacover is a bacon of hope to all!
     
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    I could grow my own tacos back when we had our homestead.

    Ingredients first needed would be a cow, a chicken or a pig depending on what kind of taco a person wants.

    Then milk the cow to make cheese before turning it into hamburger meat.

    Then corn would be grown to make tortillas.

    Grow then lettuce, tomatoes, and other taco toppings.

    Make tacos.

    Here are some recipes:

    https://permies.com/t/213548/Ultimate-Taco

    https://permies.com/t/231133/Puffy-Tacos-Texas-Specialty

    https://permies.com/t/226192/Taco-Salad
     
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    Hey - I think I found one!

    taco plant

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    Who knew? (GIr obviously!) This one looks like the leaves develop into the tacos. Presumably they get bigger and ripen into harvest time.
     
    I agree. Here's the link: http://stoves2.com
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