Hi Every one. I am looking for seeds for Field Peas. I was raised on them, but cant seem to find the seeds any where now! They are a long thin green to greyish hulls containing up to about 12 small peas.Growing on vining bushes. When cooked the peas are greyish in color and Delicious.
These are not Purple Hull or Crowder Peas.
Can any one help??
Looking for old fashioned Field Pea seed. Similar to Cow Pea
Here is an article of field peas. There are several kinds, according to this person. It is hard to know what kind your family planted but you experiment with some of these:
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/printedition/2008/07/24/fieldpeas.html?cxntlid=inform_artr
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/food/stories/2008/07/22/cooking_field_peas.html
Here is a place that sells many of those types:
http://www.victoryseeds.com/catalog/vegetable/peas/peas_southern.html
And here is an article about them which in very fine print at the end tells some places that sell the seed -- probably in large quantity:
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/alt-ag/fieldpea.htm
Thank You very much Pajaritomt, I will go investigate right now!
I wish you luck. I wouldn't mind growing a few myself.
In the south and the ones sold in the dried beans section of grocery stores are usually iron, or clay peas or a combination of the two. Best place is to get the dried ones from the grocery store. But many feed and seed stores in Georgia and South Carolina carry them . They are field peas suited for mechanical harvest, but too tedious to pick and shell to get a large following among home gardeners.
Thanks for the help Farmerdill. This is a matter of interest to me as well. I like getting them from the grocery store. That way they are cheap and you have a good idea what you are getting.
I ve never seen these particular peas in the grocery, they would be awfully small when dried , but I wil certainly look again! I have planted other varieties found in the grocery though and had wonderful luck with them, black eyes, and crowder. I figured that if they were fit for Human consumption as a dried pea, that they were not coated with a harmful substance as most seeds for planting might be. Thanks Guys for reminding me to look there!
Oh yes, Pajaritomt, I went to the Victory site and they were out of the two varieties I might be interested in... MY luck. LOL!!
Georgia Supply in Blakely has a good offereing of cowpeas. No fieldpeas tho. http://www.georgiasupply.com/bulkpound.asp The same is true of Willhite http://www.willhiteseed.com/products.php?cat=54. Sandhill is the only place I know that sells them in small amounts like packets http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/pea_cowpea.html
Thanks Farmerdill, Im off and running ..... to the web again!.............:>)
Farmerdill, I think I found them , by George!! Thank you for the heads Up! I am downloading the order form from Sandhill today! Hopefully they will be what I am looking for and then next year I will have my own seed! Sharing too!!!!
Eufaula
Just curious, Eufula, but what variety did you pick that seemed like the ones you were looking for?
Shoe
Hi shoe! Well Im not sure but the Whippoorwill sounds about right , the the Zipper cream could also be theone.
Heres a bad photo but you can see how tiny these little fellas are ,that I have left from some I grew several years ago.
Thanks, Eufaula. When I read your first post Whippoorwills came to mind.
Hope you grow out some of those seeds you have in your hand, too, as you can get a good supply of seed from those. And if you grow those out you can compare them to the ones you got from Sandhill.
Best to you and yours!
Shoe
Zipper is a relatively large cream pea. Good one tho. Your photo is a field pea ( Iron, Clay)
Im growing Red Rippers and Zippers this year. CANT WAIT to get them in my mouth......and pass the biscuits please. YUM
Look what i found! Lots of different kinds of field peas at Reimer's.
With all the different varieties offered I think I will just experiment with several!
All I know is my Grandma used to cook them year round, from the freezer. In summer We sat down to plates of fresh peas, corn , butter beans, tomatoes and Onions, then pass around the fresh hot pepper vinegar, Lordy that was good! We werent rich , but never knew it, Po' Folk ate good in the country!!
Amen! Po folks ate good in the country and were very healthy for it.
Farmer that pan of peas is really worrying me. I want some right now.
I ordered Texas Cream 40 from Victory Seeds. I think I picked those because they said something about it being a shorter plant. Some are better than others but they're all good.
I never knew you could plant dry beans from the grocery. Once again that's what I get for assuming....that in drying they heated them enough to kill the seeds.
Nope, they let them dry on the vine and use a combine to harvest them. The Texas Creams are good, I have grown the 8 and the 40. The Zipper is bigger, easier to shell, and in my opinion has a better flavor. If I get a chance i'll stop by Food Lion tomorro and pick up severals of field peas. I have a field I did not intend to plant this year and it needs a cover crop.
How cool when you can eat the cover crop!
Several summer cover crops are good eating, field peas are one, buckwheat is another.
As promised I went out to the local grocery and picked up a few lbs of field peas. This is what they look like. This particular store had them next to the lentils
And the peas .
Unfortunately, they do not sell field peas in my part of New Mexico. Black-eyed peas, yes. Field peas no. Perhaps the difference isn't that great, but there is a difference. Next time I am in the store I will pick up a bag of field peas.
Johnny's Selected Seeds sells a cover crop seed called field peas. Would this be the same thing?
No, Johnny's sells what are known as field peas in the north (Pisum sativum). A southerner calls them Canadien field peas. They are a smooth yellow seed English pea of the type used to make split pea soup, peas porridge, etc. Good cover crop for cooler climates. In the olden days they were grown for hay in parts of Virginia. Totally different from the Vigna family of peas.
Thanks. :)
Farmerdill, Thats exactly what Im looking for! We have no Food Lion Here any longer in My area, Poooooh! I ordered from Sand Hill though, Hope fully My order will be what I am hoping for!