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Post by kyredneck on Sept 29, 2015 19:11:37 GMT -5
'Asparagus Bean' is at least headed in the right direction.  |
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 29, 2015 20:52:58 GMT -5
Might be, if there wasn't already an "asparagus pea", which is something different ( Lotus tetragonalobus)
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Post by kyredneck on Dec 2, 2015 20:37:35 GMT -5
paquebot :
“I wonder if I may be the only one who shucks a lot of beans and don't wear out my arthritic fingers. I can start with a 5-gallon pail of dry pods and have clean winnowed beans in 10 minutes. I use an electric hand mixer. First time I thought of it, figured that there would be a lot of broken beans but didn't happen. Works especially well with some varieties where the pods are tight. (Exceptions are scarlet runner and big lima types which are still by hand.) Right now I have somewhere around 30 gallons of dry beans and most threshed that way.”
alanbishop.proboards.com/post/111253/thread
Thank you paquebot! It worked like a charm! Easy peasy.
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Post by philagardener on Dec 3, 2015 18:14:02 GMT -5
Welcome to HG, toomanyirons ! It's nice to hear of your experiences with these varieties! |
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Post by zeedman on Dec 3, 2015 23:28:46 GMT -5
I was the first person to grow cowpeas in my area, been growing them for around 20 years now. As far as I know I am still the only one growing them around here but I know of other Minnesotans who grow them in their areas of the state. Cowpeas do not seem to have any history up here, most people have never heard of them let alone eaten them. It might interest you to know, toomanyirons , that the U. of Minnesota once had a breeding program to develop short-season cowpeas. Some good varieties came out of that program; I grow two of them, MN 13 and MN 157. Not many gardeners grow cowpeas here either, or know of any kind other than store-bought black eyed peas. |
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Post by steev on Dec 4, 2015 1:58:03 GMT -5
That icon looks familiar, toomanyirons; something about Jeremiah Johnson and a Hawking rifle innit. Damned fine movie, IMHO.
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Post by kyredneck on Dec 5, 2015 18:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by kyredneck on Dec 5, 2015 18:38:46 GMT -5
"...I had difficulty with determining the perfect stage to pick them so that my Mr. Pea Sheller would function properly, especially with the Piggott Family Heirloom Pea. I would get a whole lot of 'mush' from immature peas. The pinkeyes worked the best overall with the pea sheller."
Anyone ever try one of these for fresh shellies?:
leemfgco.com/Item/Pea-Sheller-Jr
I wasn't too impressed.
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 5, 2015 19:24:54 GMT -5
Don't look all that crowded to me, but whadda I know? Assuming you grow it what do they mean "stand erect" (let's keep it clean  ) do they mean the plants are stocky and don't tend to lean much, or do they mean it's like that odd cowpea that grew out of the stuff from India I threw on the mulch pile; the one where the pods point straight up like candles in a candelabra! |
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Post by kyredneck on Dec 5, 2015 19:53:35 GMT -5
Don't look all that crowded to me, but whadda I know? Assuming you grow it what do they mean "stand erect" (let's keep it clean ) do they mean the plants are stocky and don't tend to lean much, or do they mean it's like that odd cowpea that grew out of the stuff from India I threw on the mulch pile; the one where the pods point straight up like candles in a candelabra!
I would think with field peas the plant is meant. What was it? Ornamental chiles have pods that 'stand erect'.
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 6, 2015 1:41:58 GMT -5
But a cowpea isn't a chili. Legumes with pods that stand like that are rather infrequent. Off the top of my head the only other ones I'm, familiar with are Cyanopsis (guar bean) and Coronilla(crown vetch).
If you are asking "what kind of cowpea was it" I have no idea, it probably came out of a Indian legume mix I found some bags of at an Indian grocery store near me (though I think that I had done some bags of just cowpeas from the same store that looked just the same, so it could have come from there as well. Exactly WHAT those bags were meant for I have no idea. They were extremely small bags and, oddly stored in the part of the store where devotional supplies were kept (butter lamps, dried coconut halves even betel nuts) my best guess is that they might have been some sort of planting mix that had somehow wound up in the grocery store (the bags said Navdanya, I think, which is the name of a major Indian seed saving co-op ). I originally bought them because they were rich in an odd kind of desi type chickpea, the kind I refer to as "burr" or "sticky" (chickpeas whose seedcoats are covered with small protuberances that make the seeds "stick" to any reasonably rough fabric) seed is small (about mung bean sized) and usually buff to tan (though at this point any seed I still have except for what came from that plant would be off color (since those would be the ones I saved instead of throwing out), so future crops will most likely be mostly white, or red, or brown eyed.)
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Post by richardw on Oct 7, 2017 13:20:00 GMT -5
Sorry not pea related but reading through this thread it seems Photo bucket is deleting so many photos
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Post by philagardener on Oct 7, 2017 14:49:30 GMT -5
Sad and true for lots of forums. A lot of valuable information lost . . .
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Post by blueadzuki on Oct 7, 2017 22:46:01 GMT -5
I find the Adzuki grey a funny name as they look a bit like my grey Adzuki's (the difference being that mine ARE actually adzuki beans, not cowpeas)
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) do they mean the plants are stocky and don't tend to lean much, or do they mean it's like that odd cowpea that grew out of the stuff from India I threw on the mulch pile; the one where the pods point straight up like candles in a candelabra! 