Derald wrote:
songbird wrote:


....all is cool, thanks for the note...


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i always thought it was blackeyed peas and collard
greens for good luck?
Yep; that, too.

ok, good to know we weren't talking about
different things and meaning the same or the
same things and meaning different, if you
get my drift. haha.


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but it also sounds like you're saying i could
eat them at the green pod stage too (not just the
other kind of cowpeas you've mentioned)?

Oh, yes. When they're still immature enough to break easily, they're tender
enough to eat in the pod. Some varieties stay tender for longer than others but
I don't know of any that aren't edible in the pods at some stage. Called, oddly
enough, "snaps", they're most often added to shelled peas (as is okra, too,
BTW). There may be another photo in your future....

ok, i'll give them a shot again next year
and see if i like them enough. or the cowpeas
too. depends if i can find them again.


In The Garden:
This morning: Trellised cucumbers, pruned jalapeño peppers, trimmed
tarragon; yellow squash, bell peppers, jalapeño peppers, tomatoes all blooming.
Month-old Little Marvel peas got their mustard greens planted yesterday; 10-2
Little Marvel peas 90% up this morning; 9-30 collards up yesterday; 9-27
"Provider" beans all sprouted around Oct.1 and off to the races. I'm delinquent
in planting turnips but we're just now having a little of what passes for "fall"
weather down here so it's easy enough to rationalize not having planted them in
September so that's what I'll do: Rationalize, that is. The cowpeas (pinkeye
purple hull) continue to bear heavily.

all sounds wonderfully great, to be out in the
gardens. other than picking dry beans here or
there and a little odd weeding yesterday morning
after burying the raccoon i've not gotten out
in the gardens enough the past few weeks.

i finally finished staining the house so
i'm taking Saturday off. the weather being so
nice i'll be outside doing something, but won't
promise what or when.

picked a few more pounds of pintos and other
mixed beans yesterday in between rounds of
staining. needed to give my neck and back a
break from looking up. very therapeutic.
must get out and get those peas picked now
as there should be some ready. they're
blooming like crazy now. everbearing
strawberries still blooming too, not ready
to quit yet.

leaves are turning, the trees are getting
nekid again. the white pines are shedding to
get ready for the winter.


songbird