Re: [gardeners] Putting it by
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:46:20 -0600
At 09:17 AM 7/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>They're one of the "southern" peas Penny. Others in the family are
>black-eyed peas, lady peas, cream
>peas, etc. They're all climbers and range from a cream color to black when
>ripe depending upon
>variety. To us southerners they're very tasty. I go ahead and cook them
>and then freeze them so they
>become a convenience food, take them out of the freezer, dump them in a
>sauce pan with a little
>extra water and start them heating up. I've tried blanching and freezing
>and don't get the quality I
>get with cooking them done and freezing, strange but that's the way it
>works with these folks.
>
>We're still picking buckets full of them off a row about 20 feet long,
>they grow up a trellis and
>down the other side so you can see they are like pole beans but are a pea.
>
>George
I recall reading that you and Miz Anne picked a peck of peas right after a
rain. No problem with wet foliage like bean picking? Margaret L