Blackeyed Peas

[dracos68]

Hello all,
Question: How and when do you know when Blackeyed peas are ready to pick???
Thanks in advanced
Michael

 

[seedcorn]

Can eat them at the same stage as green beans (when the pod starts to fill) or can let them go to dry beans. What ever stage you want to eat.

 

[HiDelight]

I love them fully mature but not dried the best just shell and cook with bacon peppers and onions

serve over rice

but your question when the pods are plump and beginning to dry ...if you want them fresh pick then if you want them really dried...and you have the weather for it .let them dry out on the vine if not I pull the vines and let them dry in the garage

 

[davaroo]

Can eat them at the same stage as green beans (when the pod starts to fill) or can let them go to dry beans. What ever stage you want to eat.

Does this apply to Navy beans as well?

 

[seedcorn]

On Navy beans, no idea. I've only had them in the dry bean form. Never grew them myself. Can always try early but I assume the pod will get woody fairly quick.

 

[davaroo]

Since black eyed peas and navy beans are classed together as shell beans, it seems likely. If the one can be eaten young as a podded vegetable, I imagine the other can as well.
I'll try a test patch an find out.

Luckily the seeds can be bought for $1.75/1000+, so it is an easy-on-the-wallet experiment

 

[patandchickens]

Pretty much ANYthing can be a shelling and/or drying bean -- it is just a matter of taste. For instance I think scarlet runner beans are wonderful shelling beans (if you didn't eat them as green beans when they were smaller) but lousy-tasting dried beans -- but someone else on this board, I forget who, apparently loves them as dried beans.

So, I think the thing to do is TRY some as green beans or shelling beans if you want, and see what your personal taste buds think

Good luck, have fun,

Pat

 

[obsessed]

Ok, stupid question what is a shellin bean and what is a dried bean?

 

[seedcorn]

Ok, stupid question what is a shellin bean and what is a dried bean?

Certain beans are for shelling only--soybean, navy beans, etc while all beans will make dried beans. I think most of us use those terms interchangable.

 

[patandchickens]

Shelling beans are ones you shell out of the pod and eat while they are still green and soft and fresh -- like fresh lima beans for example, or I think fava beans (which I've never grown nor eaten however).

Drying beans would be ones that you wait til the pod is all hard and dry and rattley, and shell out the dried beans and store them dry in a jar til you soak and cook them, like for chili or bean soup or whatever.

Pat