Help! Black Eyed Peas crunchy!
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Comments (5)I do give mine a wee bit of help, rather depends on what I want it to go up on. Thunbergia though as stated above will find it's way up anything it can twine around. Depending on what I want the vine on, I use a combination of little pea sticks and fishing line as I do for morning glories for my picket fence. If you're wanting to put it in front of say a privacy type fence you'd have to give it something to twine on. I use a black webbing (totally disappears) to get some annual vine coverage on a few areas of my privacy fence. I use little twisters that are clear plastic covered wires to very loose tie in place as things get started depending on what vine. Never tie tightly though you want nothing that will damage the vine and you have to remember the vine will be getting thicker as it grows....See MoreHarvesting Black-Eyed Peas
Comments (3)If you have the freezer room and want to try them fresh, try blanching and freezing them. Growing up, I only ate them fresh. Now that I have tried fresh & dried, I like them both ways. They taste a bit different - I think the fresh is the best. To harvest them fresh, you want to let the pods fill out before you pick them. If you want snaps, pick some when they are real young and thin. After shelling them, blanch them, and then put in quart freezer bags and freeze. Around here, most folks like to grow them in the fall since there doesn't seem to be as many bugs. Hope this helps....See MoreBlack-Eyed Pea Variety Suggestions
Comments (2)I planted three types last year rice pea texas longhorn california califonia could not take the heat. rice peas did great, but peas so small so I won't plant them again. I loved Texas longhorn - they are large peas, maroon in color. They taste like boiled peanuts. They only take about 8 pods enough for one to have southern peas for dinner. They did great with all that heat last summer. I did water a lot though. This did not help the California peas though. They are very viney (5-7') and take 90 days to green stage. It could be that the extreme heat of last summer made them mature slower? I loved them. My garden may have needed more water since it is a new no till garden and worms have not had enough time to do my tilling for me. Hummus is much thicker this year, but now we have too much rain. I read Texas longhorn are similar if not the same as big red ripper, which should be easier to locate....See MoreFreezing Blackk-eyed peas for market
Comments (3)As soon as you get beyond picking and selling fresh you are into "food processing" and it's a whole different set of rules. Selling them as if they were fresh would wreck your reputation because they usually go mushy when they thaw. I'm not familiar how well they last on the plant - can you pick on Thursday and Friday for the Saturday market? Will they keep better unshelled? Could you dry them for later? If not, can you sell via Facebook? A local farmer here sells his okra that way, because it doesn't keep long enough for a weekly market. She usually has a bunch for sale Tuesdays via FB and then reguylar market on Saturday...See Morecentralcacyclist
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