Looking good Bill...I posted not to long ago and was worried about my peas because they were very yellow looking and I thought sure they were inthe throes of some disease ...I guess it was all the water/rain because they are looking good...not as far along as yours cause I was so late getting started but they are going to produce some peas...I am just sure of that...

Keep us posted on the outcome and if you have some really good ones...please....pretty please ...save me some seed...

Thanks for the update Bill! I am quite curious on how the results turn out. I haven't a clue on Black eyed pea genetics but find this experiment interesting.

Thanks for keeping us posted.

This is a very worthwhile project. If you succeed in getting mostly multiple pods, it will be a valuable strain. I think it would be of commercial use if it results in higher yields.

Do you have Carol Deppe's book, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties? To people with our kind of interests, it reads like a combination of a science text and an adventure story.

Jim

You got it Ruthie, even if I only get a few seed, I will share some with you.

And thank you John, I will keep posting on this.

Thanks Jim. No I do not have that book, but it does sound intrigueing. I guess that only time will tell if a stable strain will come from this, or if like next year they will all be back to just two pods on each stem.

Next step for me is to see how they taste this year.
Bill P.

MMMMmmmmmMMMMMmmmmm {{gwi:67474}} They passed the taste test with flying colors. "":^)
Bill P.

Wonderful...I love peas...it's a toss up between beans and peas cause I love them both but I have to tell you Bill...every available inch of my garden is taken up with beans or peas...

Bill, I hate to tell ya, but if I was a betting man, I would have predicted those peas tasting every bit as good as you say they did ;)

Your pic is making me salivate!

Thanks and keep us posted!

Thanks Ruthie and Jim. I realize that they are not for everyone, but I really do like them. I guess that one of my favorite meals is some of them along with some hot buttered cornbread, fresh cream style corn off the cob, new potatoes, and sliced tomatoes, meat optional, don't have to have it. The only tomatoes out of the garden that I have so far are some cherry tomatoes, but they sure do taste good, and it won't be long before I start getting some {{gwi:67475}}.

I think that they are healthy, easy to raise and being legumes fix some nitrogen in your soil too.

I have started finding a few stink bugs showing up in the garden, and just late this evening found my first hornworm, but one end of him looks atrophied like perhaps one of those parasitic wasps may have already done him some damage. He had already got the leaves on {{gwi:67476}}. When I tracked him down and located him, he was waving that damaged end {{gwi:67477}} like he was in agony of something. I put him in a glass jar with a lid and some leaves in there with him to see how he looks in the morning.
Bill P.

Koo-Koo HEE Hee LOL, again LOL with my wife! you go G.......let us see that lil Pest this weekend....Khhh LOL

Hey Blane, that hornworm was still alive this morning but appeared to be suffering from a {{gwi:67478}} or was a little off his feed. I am going to keep him in that glass jar awhile to see if any little parasitic wasps hatch out of him.

We got another 3/4ths inch of rain overnight and was still raining lightly so I went ahead and picked the two Big Beefsteak tomatoes that had {{gwi:67481}}. I found some fresh corn at the super market that looks good and think that I will cut it off the cob and make some corn bread.
Bill P.