When do I pick my cow peas?

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BigAleks01 Pompton Lakes, NJ Jul 27, 2007

Ok, as a beginning gardener I was trying to impress my wife who is a civil war reenactor by planting good-old southern cow peas. They have grown tremendously, but every person I talk to has a different suggestion on when to pick them and how to cook them. Help please!!!

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Farmerdill Augusta, GA(Zone 8a) Jul 27, 2007

depends to some extent on what cultivar. During the War between the States, the Clay was the major cultivar. It is small and usually allowed to dry on the vine. It is then threshed out ( we stuffed them in burlap sacks and beat them with a stick). They are best cooked like dry beans, (boiled with a slice of slab of pork). Most of the newer cultivars, blackeyes, cream, crowder are preferred as green shellies. Shelled out when the pods are full and boiled with butter ( actually in this day and age some form of butter substitute). Actually treated like butterbeans ( lima) . They also be used dried. The tiny ones like clay, rice , whippoorwill etc are fine as green shellies, it is just too laborious to shell them.

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