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Whippoorwill peas
Which are a cousin of the Humble Southern Staple Black Eyed Peas , are on
the menu for tonight . Taste pretty good ... These are from the garden , grown from seeds acquired at the Ozark Seed Swap last May . I don't recall if I posted a follow-up to the Red Ripper thread , but they were very good too . Both varieties will be on my list for next year ! -- Snag |
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Whippoorwill peas
Derald wrote:
"Terry Coombs" wrote: Which are a cousin of the Humble Southern Staple Black Eyed Peas , are on the menu for tonight . Taste pretty good ... These are from the garden , grown from seeds acquired at the Ozark Seed Swap last May . I don't recall if I posted a follow-up to the Red Ripper thread , but they were very good too . Both varieties will be on my list for next year ! Man, I'm tellin' ya: You ain't et peas 'til you've had zipper cream crowders or those wonderful tiny brown conch peas or old timey white acre crowder peas or.... I didn't save any zipper cream seeds last time and this year my two most reliable online sources are out; bummer. I won't be planting more cowpeas 'til February or March, though, so maybe will come through by then but I'm not optimistic. I have what are probably the last of pinkeye purple hull peas just coming in-good thing, too, because the okra's still going strong. Two later plantings are thriving but I'm afraid cool weather will hit just as they're coming into enflorescence. Until just a few months ago I didn't realize how many varieties there are out there . Puzzles me that the only ones you see on the grocery shelf are black eyes when there are so many much tastier options . I'm hoping to find some others next year at the seed swap . -- Snag |
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Whippoorwill peas
Terry Coombs wrote:
.... Until just a few months ago I didn't realize how many varieties there are out there . Puzzles me that the only ones you see on the grocery shelf are black eyes when there are so many much tastier options . I'm hoping to find some others next year at the seed swap . when it comes to beans there are many varieties. the types you are talking about take a fairly long season and so that means the growing region is going to be smaller with fewer producers. each bean variety that is mass marketed would need it's own packaging and if the size is different enough from other beans that also means special equipment to plant/harvest/clean/sort/store etc. and not all varieties grow out well enough and have the right characteristics for mass planting or harvesting (some types shell too easily and others are very difficult, some rot easily, some don't grow well in poorer soil or won't grow at all in clay, etc.) i don't think there's a huge amount of money in growing beans and i'd say from what i see that there is a limited market for new varieties so not much money is put into developing more of them. i.e. the market is fairly well saturated. i have more varieties here than i can ever study and test and i keep finding more each season. this year i planted more of the staple varieties we use the most (red, pinto, lima, yellow eye) to rebuild stocks from last year's small harvest and planted out some of the other crosses i've already found so that i could cook some up to see if they are worth continuing (at least two look promising). it's the early harvest time yet so i'm sure more surprises are in store for me. songbird |
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Whippoorwill peas
Derald wrote:
"Terry Coombs" wrote: Derald wrote: Man, I'm tellin' ya: You ain't et peas 'til you've had zipper cream crowders or those wonderful tiny brown conch peas or old timey white acre crowder peas or.... snip Until just a few months ago I didn't realize how many varieties there are out there . Puzzles me that the only ones you see on the grocery shelf are black eyes when there are so many much tastier options . I'm hoping to find some others next year at the seed swap . In my youth, spent in Florida's Tampa Bay area, grocery stores and vegetable markets generally offered several varieties of fresh, in the shell, cowpeas ("field peas" or simply "peas" in the South) as well as of green beans but by the middle 1970's, my family was travelling to a farmers' market in a nearby smaller town in order to buy "zipper cream" crowder peas and "silver queen" white corn (maize). Purely speculatively, I suspect that the mechanized monocropping and distribution system that places only one variety of crisphead lettuce, broccoli, yellow squash, grapes, etc. in most grocery stores in the US limits the widescale distribution of cowpeas to those that favor large scale mechanized harvesting and processing. The following is _not_ an endorsement. In fact, one of the vendors is on my "never again" list but it'll give you an idea of the variety available to home gardeners: http://www.rareseeds.com/store/veget...wpeas/?F_All=Y http://www.southernexposure.com/vege...s-c-3_121.html http://www.reimerseeds.com/cowpeas_474.aspx My wife had to shake me out of my trance , the pool of saliva beneath my chair was getting pretty big ... the only field pea I'd ever tried was blackeyes , which to me taste much like mud ... I now know there's a wide variety to try . -- Snag |
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