Beginner Gardening: Black Eyed Peas, 0 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
Most of the purple hulls give one big flush and then smaller sequential harvests, if you pick them as green shellies. As dried peas one shot is about it. Most bush green beans will do the same thing, particularly the older cultivars. Of course peas will stand the heat of summer. Green beans here are toast in June whether they have set a crop or not. They cannot take triple digits day in and day out. My late planting burned out June 15 at 105 degrees without making. But back when I grew in the mountains of Virginia, they would straggle on all summer. Usually not worth the effort tho. With peas I usually use the first crop for freezing, subsequent crops for fresh eating, and allow a row or so to dry for seed. Dried peas are not my favorites so I seldom save any for that purpose. I like the green shellies with snaps ( pick some of the immature green pods and break them up and cokk them with the peas)
This is Quick Pick an early cultivar of Pinkeye Purple Hull