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Post by raymondo on Jan 3, 2011 14:37:42 GMT -5
..."hong-dau" does mean adzuki beans, but it is also used to cover red cowpeas... I bought some beans labelled hong dau which are dwarf red-podded yardlong beans (cowpeas), the only ones I've found so far that provide me with both pods to eat and mature seed to save in my shortish season. |
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Post by blueadzuki on Jan 3, 2011 15:27:24 GMT -5
..."hong-dau" does mean adzuki beans, but it is also used to cover red cowpeas... I bought some beans labelled hong dau which are dwarf red-podded yardlong beans (cowpeas), the only ones I've found so far that provide me with both pods to eat and mature seed to save in my shortish season. Tiny (roughly lentil sized) black cowpeas/crowders are pretty common "volunteers" in rice beans; I've pulled out about 6 drams of them so far (they take up about 3/4 of an 8 dram vial) whether they are yardlongs or not I don't know as I havent planted any yet (I have so many things to plant, and no one in my family likes crowders much). Actually that brings up an interesting point. Since the terms devide by color alone, it occurs to me that with regard to my off colored adzuki's. If you had a strain of those that you were selling on a market level (mine are presumably errants and field odds and ends, But I ahve heard that there are (or were) places in Japan where tan, mottled,etc. type adzuki's were the normal form. You'd have adzuki beans that couldn't be sold as hong dau. I wonder what they would call those on the market, "Bai Hong Dau", "white red beans"? (no wait, that would be for the pinto ones.....) My beloved blue ones would be a real headache, in Classical Chinese, "Blue" and "Green" are the same word so they'd end up being called the same thing as mung beans. As for black if they followed the add on I speculated for the tan ones, you'd get "black red beans" which wouln't be a problem in an of itself, except I am sure that, if that name became common usage, some clueless/crooked packer in China would get really confused, and the next thing you know, we'd be seeing little bags on the shelves full of rosary peas! (for those who don't get why this would be a problem, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrus_precatorius) |
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Post by DarJones on Jan 6, 2011 20:20:32 GMT -5
I bought 5 packs of the Yakumo peas. They are large very deep red peas, shrunken like the sweeter peas, but listed as snow peas. Now I'm looking forward to planting peas and potatoes.
DarJones
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Post by DarJones on Jan 24, 2011 20:31:18 GMT -5
I'm up to 7 varieties of peas to plant for this year.
Blue Pod Capucijners - Source Sandhill
Blue Pod Capucijners X Super Snappy - Cross I am growing out from my garden
Golden Sweet - Source Sandhill
Heirloom English Pea - Source Rodger Winn
Maestro - Source Burpee
Mayfair - Source Fedco
Yakumo snowpea - Source Ebay seller
If the weather cooperates, I will till up part of the garden and plant within the next 2 weeks.
DarJones
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jan 27, 2011 7:34:47 GMT -5
I'm not trying anything special this year. Just going to get whatever they have at the feed and grain and grow a couple rows of shelling and one row of edible pods. Hopefully we'll be getting the seed in the next couple of days.
We are using a different plot for the peas this year and we have already started prepping it out. (It's right in front of a bee hive too!) Last year we used it for beans, crucifers, and wild flowers. We burned the debris then covered with the first stuff out of the first TP pit, then tilled it in. The birds have been going through it hunting, pecking, hopefully pooping. We dropped soil samples at the extension office a week ago.
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Post by DarJones on Jan 29, 2011 22:04:48 GMT -5
I planted 2 rows of peas about 110 feet long today. Just as soon as the Golden Sweet seed arrive from Sandhill, I will put in another row.
DarJones
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Post by robertb on Jan 30, 2011 15:45:07 GMT -5
We're still getting hard frosts. -6 forecast for tonight; definitely not pea planting weather!
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Post by galina on Jan 30, 2011 16:34:01 GMT -5
We're still getting hard frosts. -6 forecast for tonight; definitely not pea planting weather! No, not even thinking of sowing peas yet either. But in another two weeks, perhaps three, I will start here indoors. Planting out time will be another 4-6 weeks after that. With cloche protection. Which is really the earliest opportunity for our chilly part of Britain, away from the moderating influence of the sea and on cold clay soil. |
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Post by robertb on Jan 31, 2011 7:31:58 GMT -5
I could probably start round-seeded varieties around the beginning of March, but in these days of freezers I don't bother with early peas much.
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Post by heidihi on Jan 31, 2011 8:01:05 GMT -5
just a couple more weeks until pea planting ..but right now I have a row of peas that made it rhough the winter and are about 5 inches high now!
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Post by atash on Jan 31, 2011 12:39:11 GMT -5
Argh, and I'm not quite ready for it. February's going to be a busy month.
I'm going to grow yellow soup peas, sweet peas (I mean immature green peas for eating, not Lathyrus odoratus), and sugar snap peas, all self-supporting "afolia" types whose tendrils interlock.
And some Blauschokkers and dwarf Blauschokkers, because I like the colored pods that are easy to spot for harvest, and the big gaudy flowers. But I would like a self-supporting version of those too.
Favas will go in even before the peas. I think they're probably coldhardier, at least, the ones I have. I might grow some Egyptian favas too, though, that probably are not as coldhardy as the ones designed for overwintering. Maybe some of the ones with colored blossoms too.
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Post by heidihi on Feb 1, 2011 8:21:04 GMT -5
I put some favas in during the fall and hope they make it through and sprout! I held back on half of them for later this spring ..I heard you could plant them in the fall here and they would stay dorment then grow when it warms up so we will see!
i had a mental breakdown yesterday and it was just warm enough to go prune some fruit trees (I am terrified of pruning and hope I did ok)
and I will admit that I soaked and planted some peas yesterday as well ..it helped nip my depression ..gave me hope and let me get a good luck at what is going on out there
I also dug out a planter and put some raspberries in and then put peas around the raspberries so they woudl grow up the supports while the canes establish ..
I still have a ton of peas for Presidents Day but I had to get a head start I was really down in the dumps
I wonder if I should put more fava's in next weekend then? or wait a bit?
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Post by wildseed57 on Feb 1, 2011 10:49:50 GMT -5
February is to earily for me, I will be growing Golden Sweet, Spring Bluch again, King Tut which is a old English Shelling Pea, A deep purple seeded Pea called Purple Passion, but may have been selected from Nigro Violaceum either Duch or possible German desentdance, I have a whole quart jar of mixed snap and shelling peas. I have a large jar of Chinese yard long beans that is do to be planted in May when the ground is warm Then I have some Purple Giant Poles that Dan gave me, I'm still looking for a gold or yellow Romano type pole bea, anyone have a few seeds of this?
George W.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 28, 2011 20:01:31 GMT -5
I planted my peas last Tuesday.
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Post by DarJones on Mar 2, 2011 21:34:34 GMT -5
My peas are now about 4 inches tall and growing rapidly. I will put up strings for them to grow on this weekend.
DarJones
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