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Originally Posted by "G"

I love purple hulls but, I ate some brown crowders tonight.....man those are good.

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Ooh yeah I like the crowders also. Make that thick brown soup.

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I picked 4 bushels of Imperial purple hull peas last week, then shelled all except a dish pan full. Debbie shelled them. My hands were black. My fingers and thumbs were numb. It took me 3 days to shell them. Then almost a full day to blanch and divide up into pints and quarts. I got 37 1/4 quarts off of them. Now the kids want to go pick them some.
I picked a few hand fulls of creme peas, shelled and cooked them down with some cornbread. I didn't care for them.

This makes about 22 quarts we have put up this year. Should put some more but I dunno if I'll get to or not.

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I drove out to this guy's field. All I could see was black. The peas were dried. Had to hunt hard for fresh ones, but could have picked a few truck loads of dried ones. I've never messed with dried peas except to save as seeds. And the store bought ones.
I have Top Crop peas here in the garden. They are a pink hull, pink eye peas. They taste as good as purple hulls but don't stain your hands. I have 17 qts. of them in the freezer, the kids have had 1 picking each and the deer get their share.
We will be picking butter beans this weekend.