I just finished helping shell two bushels of peas. It got me to wondering: what kind of peas do folks in different parts of the country grow for their freezers and for the local market?
Down here in my corner of the deep South if someone tells his peas are just about ready to pick, you know he's talking about purple hulls. If you see an ad in the paper of someone selling peas out of their truck patch, you know it's purple hulls. When I was a kid we used to grow some crowders and field peas, but mostly it was purple hulls.
In the early spring lots of folks have a patch of English peas, but come summer it's purple hulls by a wide margin.
Folks down here hardly know what a black-eyed pea looks like.
Down here in my corner of the deep South if someone tells his peas are just about ready to pick, you know he's talking about purple hulls. If you see an ad in the paper of someone selling peas out of their truck patch, you know it's purple hulls. When I was a kid we used to grow some crowders and field peas, but mostly it was purple hulls.
In the early spring lots of folks have a patch of English peas, but come summer it's purple hulls by a wide margin.
Folks down here hardly know what a black-eyed pea looks like.
