Picking, Shelling and Cooking Purple Hull Peas

[@HomesteadHopefulTara]

I absolutely love breaking beans and shelling peas. I wish I had a farm so I could grow enough to be able to do it as much as I want. So relaxing for me. I miss being able to do it with my granny.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

My gran and I used sit and shell English peas or my other favorite snapping greenbeans. I didn't think I'd get beans this year they were so slow to produce (pole beans) but I ended up getting a full freezer and still picking about 1/2 pound a day (its gotten cold up here in michigan. We are anout done) Been teaching my youngest grandson to snap beans. I pick the ends off and he pops them into pieces. He's just shy of being 2 but I warned all the family that he might have taken bites here and there lol. So no complaining during dinner! Now I've found with my pole beans some of the older types with strings have better flavor. I havent been able to grow these types of peas yet. I don't think we have that long a season. I've gotten maybe a couple dinners worth each time I've tried growing. The deer around here are absolutely horrible about the gardens. They are even breaking though my fences. Lol. I have had my hubby peeing round my gardens as I was told male pee is better at running off animals-came out to see the fox walking along my fence row peeing right over all the spots my hubs had gone lol. At least I don't have rabbits or ground hogs this year 😅

[@pawpawmike7372]

You showed 1 of my favorite meals. Purple hulls and cornbread. Most folks dont eat like that anymore, they go out to eat or cook from a box. I was raised in south Louisiana on a farm and picked way more than my share of peas, lol. I dont have as large a garden as I used to, but I still grow most of the veg. that my wife and I eat. Thanks for sharing.

[@veronica978]

Yumm and don’t forget homegrown tomatoes and an onion wedge. With a large glass of sweet tea or lemonade

[@Ojb_1959]

My Momo would always put a dozen or so okra pods on her peas just under the surface while they were cooking for an extra bonus. We sucked em down like spaghetti. I remember shellin peas til my fingers were raw when I was little. Mama or Momo would give us a nickel, dime or a quarter depending on the bowl size. I needed money to buy pellets or fishing tackle when them or my great uncles took me hunting or fishing up in Winnsboro, La. Best times ever ! 🐂👨‍🌾🌾👩🏼‍🌾🐓

[@kevinpegues8198]

Love the peace n quiet, nature, crows and birds in the background...aaahhhhh...God is Good! Thanks for the video :)

[@Epona52]

It's been about 30 years - but my first husband and I owned a feed store in central Arkansas, and they had a pea sheller when we bought it. About 2 years in, we bought a second one . . . we got pinkeye purplehull seed by the 50# bag in the spring, and I'd have two people on the shellers in the fall. Customers brought their peas in by the bushel each morning, and we had a customer who picked up the hulls every evening for her pigs. And they go great with turnip greens!

[@marleneppaul]

Look at all the dark green color in your gardens, absolutely beautiful. Both of you were very blessed with valuable lessons from your families that is missing in todays society. The WEF and UN are in New York as we speak concocting ways that we’ll live in smart cities eating bugs and living in a virtual reality and that’s what some want these days, not me. I’ve been telling my family and friends that we should be going in together to buy land so we can grow our own food. There are corporations buying up all the farms and food production plants but not everything just yet so we need to take care of our own at this point. Thank you for sharing those gorgeous peas, they look delicious. Please pay attention to the hurricane developing in the gulf, the channels I watch say this could be really bad. Let’s pray it isn’t.

[@cathywco]

Such good timing. I canned 11 pints of peas yesterday and sitting here shelling more today. Love me some purple hull peas!

[@judyhernandez3391]

Totally lost our first spring crop. It was disappointing but we plated again in late July. How the Lord provides! Our freezer cant hold any more, we are picking, shelling and sharing quart bags with the elderly, neighbors and family. Now we will be canning a case or 2 and we will be saving seed! I also learned to add snaps from my parents.

[@catherinefrye7269]

I love fresh peas and beans. They are delicious! I remember as a child picking peas out of my Grandmother's garden. Thanks for sharing your video Danny and Wanda, I enjoyed watching it!🤗❤

[@mleafrn]

My elderly neighbor lady grew an acre of these every year. I bought bushels shelled them and loved them!!! I planted some this year. Can’t wait to eat ‘em!

[@Lisa-378]

Mr. Danny and Ms. Wanda, there is NOTHING better than pink eye purple hulls! I could eat my weight in them. I grew a few this year in my small patch, and they did well. I also bought some red rippers to try next year. I grew enough for a few meals. I bought some to put up. $48 for a shelled bushel. I paid $25 for a shelled bushel just a few years ago. I'm going to try to grow a couple of plantings next year. Enjoyed the video!!!

[@nancymarshall188]

Thank you. I’ve got the Great Wall of red rippers. I’ve never grown field peas before and I’ve let them dry on the vine, and I put them in a pillow case, thump it on the floor, pick out the husks, and there are the little red peas. My husband doesn’t like field peas so I hide them in soup along with the sweet potatoes and winter squash that doesn’t like either. He likes the soup! I’ll try harvesting some peas fresh like you’ve shown. Thank you again.

[@blessedbloominghomestead9134]

I love the snaps in my peas too. We didn’t grow any zipper peas this year because we got so many last year. I will plant them again in the spring. We got 3 pickings from our peas last year and they were putting on more pods, but I pulled them and gave them to the goats. Many Blessings!! ❤

[@JK-jf7xq]

This is the type of simple information some of us need. Thank you.

[@osmadchlo]

I love field peas! I would happily sit and shell peas for hours... ❤

[@GrandmaSally]

I use to too, can't do it as long anymore due to Arthritis.

[@cimarronpasshomestead5998]

Y’all are my homestead elders and I love watching all of your videos to have someone to share this life with! God bless ya Mr. Danny and Miss Wanda! I love all of your channels!

[@jodifesler6712]

I know this might be a little crude but my Mama used to yell out the kitchen window we have indoor plumbing! Because she would see my dad out in the garden peeing he'd yell back I'm keeping the rabbits away

[@mommacrow3170]

Love that story.

[@SarahBahou]

Thank you! This is so helpful!! I've started a garden in my backyard in containers this summer. As a first timer the basics of what the peas should look like are important as well as all the ways to keep deer away, etc. Can't wait to cook my haul!

[@danellefrost5030]

This was simply the most lovely video. Thank you so much for the in depth explanation start to finish. I am growing pink eye purple hull peas for the very first time, and really had no idea how to go about it. Not everyone was raised being taught how to garden and to find honest and sincere instruction can be difficult, even with the internet available. I look forward to watching more of your videos, you are both a joy to watch and listen to.

[@monkeyfoodgarden]

Thank y'all. First year growing these and y'all are my go to for help. Have a blessed day.

[@khatch62]

Spent untold hours sitting under the big oak shelling purple hulls and snapping a few green ones. Love them purple hulls!

[@cimarronpasshomestead5998]

O my word what a gorgeous scene with the pond! I so needed that! We finally got a little rain this morning and may get a little more today. Here in SW Mo Drought has been our name. Temps dropped too for first day of Fall high of 70 just wow God is good amen! Love y’all and God bless!!

[@maryruth4557]

My Grandmother said that the green snap beans would cut the starch down. She put a few in each canning jar and some in a pot of peas when she was cooking them fresh.

[@rosebrown5256]

I'm growing mine vertically to save space in my backyard in the city. This is my first time and I will be harvesting soon

[@tammythompson7102]

When I harvest my Purple Hulls I lay them out on my table inside let them fully dry then I shell them. I just store the dried peas in Mason jars. They store beautifully and cook up perfectly too!

[@jacktedder9208]

I like to plant top pick pink eye purple Hull peas because most of the peas will be towards top of bush and you don't have to bend over as far to pick them.

[@saddleridge4364]

I grew Red Rippers first time this year. They went nuts, climbed up my pea pole trellis 7 ft high. I let them dry on the vine, then pick em and shell em. Save enough for next spring planting, and store the rest for soup peas. Love the beautiful blue flowers they bloom with.

[@jaybatemen4497]

Beautiful, Gardening I could watch all day.

[@NIKKIRHODES1212]

Yum Yum Yum! These are my favorite peas and I used to shell them with my Grandma. I certainly miss those days on the front porch shelling with her. Thank you for this video!

[@sweetpotato2098]

I've planted, shelled, and canned and cooked a mine in my life time being born and raised in Central Alabama. I love pink eye purple hull peas with scraps from a ham mm good 😊

[@kimmyseegmiller985]

Good Morning Danny & Wanda! Have a wonderful day!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Good morning

[@kimberlyjennings1970]

Beautiful crop of peas! Mine last year were very productive and PTL I still have some in the freezer because we didn’t get any to make this year. God Bless🙏🏻

[@deanneidholt1635]

Growing lots of zipper and cream peas number 8..shelled many..share with the widow's at church..most of them are in their 80 yrs now..I am a young man of 70..God Bless growing in Texas

[@debbielee93]

Pink eye purple hull is absolutely my favorite pea!

[@karensuggs5796]

Mama used to rub crisco around the top of the inside of the pot to keep the peas from boiling over. I found placing a wooden spoon across the pot does the same thing.

[@rt3box6tx74]

My husband's family originated in KY. They grew and canned many varieties of peas. Purple hulls were a favorite. When our kids went through their bottomless pit phase of teenhood I bought a sheller. I love the thing. For my machine to shell its best the peas need to be wet so I put 'em in laundry baskets to wash the dust off the outside before putting them through the wringer. The mass production process is so messy there's no way I could do it inside. I always pick some snaps too. Need about 15% green in there. IMO without snaps the flavor resembles dried peas. Howevet i will admit shelling peas & snapping beans by hand is prime family time around the kitchen table.

[@anitawitt84]

I am shelling and snapping these as I watch y’all! A friend introduced me to them just this year and we’ve been amazed. We’ve eaten many as snap beans. I’m canning this week’s pickings. They have bloomed & made in the awful (central Oklahoma) heat we’ve had this year, when green beans won’t. I’m still praying & hoping for a good fall harvest of my bush beans but I’m thrilled to have these. Thanks for teaching me more about them. ❤

[@dawnports6896]

I've been wondering what they looked like after they were cooked. Thank you Danny and Wanda for sharing this video. ❤️

[@deeceestewart4103]

Good morning! 😊 I hope you both have a wonderful day! I'm visiting my family in N.H. right now and I'm with my grandchildren. And here I am waking up to you and feeling ever so grateful to always have your videos and content to share with them! Thank you both so very much! ❤🥰🌷 p.s. they always love the cows especially lol.

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Good morning

[@michaeltillman1147]

Add black pepper and cook all the water out, adding some back just as it's barely starting to sizzle (not letting it scorch) and you've got perfection. That gives it some natural gravy or pot licker for pushing around with the cornbread. That's a meal! 😎

[@rt3box6tx74]

That's how I cook pintos. Run them almost dry, then add water back.

[@LuJustLu]

Nothing better than some pink eye purple hull peas and cornbread with a glass iced sweet tea. Maybe a spoon or two of some Chow Chow....whew!!!!

[@vickieboudwin7781]

The peas look beautiful. Thank you for making the video to explain how to cook them.

[@lorrismith7366]

Good morning! I love watching Deep South Homestead!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Good morning

[@potpourrioflife]

Thank you for sharing. Danny I will pray that your dental work goes well for you. Wanda thank for sharing the old ways of cooking. I have a few old cookbooks which I find valuable as they also share other food info. Stay well, work hard, love always and always find time to laugh.

[@SusanDGElf]

This brings back so many memories of summers at my grandparents in central Louisiana. Purple hulls were my favorite peas and we spent lots of time shelling these on grandma's front porch. If I recall, she would cook the peas with a few fresh whole okra pods, but I didn't like the sliminess of the okra. My mom loved it and so did Grandpa. Danny reminds me of my grandpa wearing his overall's and picking peas with his bucket. Thanks for the memories, Danny and Wanda.

[@ahomesteadjourney]

These purple hull peas look delicious! It was relaxing watching you shell them and listening to your stories ❤

[@gerrymarmee3054]

Learning more about southern food. I can tell I am going to love it.

[@joewilson1457]

Old man told me the only way to keep deer out of the garden was to put them in the freezer

[@robineggblue-bp3rq]

My mom and dad always grew pink eye purple hulls. So much better from the garden than a can. ENTIRELY different taste. Good eatin'! My mom likes to cook them in beef/chicken broth and add hickory smoked salt. Maybe add some ham bits at times. My Dad loved having a fresh onion and fresh tomato with them. You knew summer had come when you could have that and fresh corn on the cob from the garden! I'm salivating thinking about it!

[@janetwethepeople9390]

You are blessed with the rain you had. Oklahoma in ne corner is really hurting.

[@DavidSmith-bw3bk]

Shelling peas on our screened porch in the summer brings back fond memories. We always looked forward to this delicious summer food. Your cornbread looks delicious too. Thank you again for a wonderful video

[@challengingkitchen3554]

Lovely garden! Your lunch is looking mighty tasty too😋

[@lindadykes4040]

Happy birthday Wanda! God bless you and your family 💖

[@christinestreeter8920]

That shot of peas and cornbread at the end of the video made my mouth water - looked so yummy!

[@veronica978]

My memaw use to take aluminum pie pans and put all around her garden. She said between the sound of them in the wind and the light shining on the aluminum it help keep the critters away.

[@pamelapruitt2558]

My purple hulls are about to peter out for the year. They have come back 3 times so far. In the middle of the summer I was picking my patch twice a day. Once upon a time I had a wonderful pea sheller. It was made from 2 old typewriter platens, a metal tray and a small motor. Wish I still had it.

[@nancytharp8213]

Planted & harvested red ripper peas this year. Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

[@TinaD_RollTide]

Nice pea patch, I had a decent harvest considering lack of rain and deer. Good luck pickin!

[@sonnyamoran7383]

Love the purple hull pink eye and red ripper. Thanks to y'all. Easy to grow and plenty of food.

[@Southernson-dy5nq]

Love peas and cornbread, I cook mine for at least 45 minutes. Yummy!

[@gwencalloway4808]

Those peas look so good.I grew up eating peas and still love them.I have not grew them yet in my garden,however will be adding this seed on my garden list next year.

[@chantillyvintage]

My mother & grandfather also liked to have a few snaps mixed in with their peas. Cooked with a little bacon grease & onion, with a side of homemade corn bread. Good stuff.

[@nancygrogan6082]

Those peas look fantastic. God willing, I’m going to have some next year.

[@southerngal7899]

I used to keep a purple thumb. 😁 Liked shelling peas but no so much butter beans. Y'all have a great weekend. 🙏🙏✝️

[@gardenercarl1197]

This is exactly the video I needed this week! Thank you!

[@MispelledOnPurpose]

Thank you. I grew a few of these this year but wasn't sure what to do with them, or even when to pick them. We only ate black eye peas dried from the store.

[@lisaadams7914]

I throw some whole okra in my peas at the very end of cooking them.

[@felestrong7515]

@@lisaadams7914 does it taste good? I thought about adding some to the pot but afraid of the slime.

[@sharonm.3197]

Enjoyed the video. Thank y’all for sharing! I hope y’all have a blessed day!

[@bettynewman66]

I've always picked them dry, and cooked them like black eye peas. With our time constraints, I seldom get to them in a greener state, but I have done a few that way.

[@TheFamilyFarmstead]

I’m so glad you finally showed how to cook the peas. I’m not from the south and had no idea how they were prepared or served. Now if the beans were dry would preparation be the same but just take longer to cook? Looks like a great staple crop.

[@osmadchlo]

Yes, it will take a little longer. Or, you could soak them an hour or two and then pour that water off, add more water, season them up and cook them. Peas don't take as long to cook since they are smaller than pintos. 👍

[@kate4biglittlevoices]

Didn’t know I miss shelling peas so much- sitting on the front porch w sore purple fingers and a large bowl full of hulls and peas - 😢

[@denisedoodles]

What beautiful peas! I've never grown them before but may give them a try next year. Thanks for sharing!

[@shellycarson6563]

I miss shelling peas with my grandma. I've been working on learning to garden on my own and I haven't gotten a chance to try peas yet. Hoping next year I'm able to.

[@marsupial2583]

Add a ham hock & some cornbread, you have yourself a wonderful meal! 😋. Wanda if you like shelling peas, come on over, I've got buckets full! 😅💗

[@smallfarmliving3362]

Good morning ☀️Those are some pretty peas.

[@kennethcanaday1960]

I remember picking peas in the field. Hard work pick and shell. Very rewarding though!@

[@kennethcanaday1960]

I'm talking 50 bushels.

[@sonshine2030]

I'm glad you shared this video. I planted black eyed peas this year for the first time. They look alike in some ways. My thoughts were to dry them and put them in soups, and save some for seed. I'm mostly letting them dry on the vine. Not sure if I'm doing right or not. Any help on this idea would be much appreciated. Thank you so much.

[@jesusislord2457]

I planted some black eye peas from a bag I bought at the grocery store. They all germinated within four days, which was a nice surprise! My only regret is I didn't plant more. I want to try butter beans and limas next year. I hope you have a bumper crop of everything you sow.☮️♥️🙏

[@sonshine2030]

@@jesusislord2457 Thank you. Same to you. It's an amazing thing to learn what the garden has to teach us, God is so faithful to bless us all with a harvest. It reminds me how close to his heart his Harvest is, and how we can also share with him in His Harvest of lost souls.

[@MichaelSeanHarrell]

Picking pink eyes today here as well.Our hens love them fresh off the vine.greetings from the east side of Texas.

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

I grew some king tut purple peas by the flowing well this year.

[@denisebrady6858]

Fabulous just Fabulous- what a great video. Thank you.

[@lauracarter2223]

We don't have a problem with deer in our peas but with birds! They ruin peas biting them. We hang pie pans but if the birds don't get them the stink bugs sting them! We spray with soapy water on the peas and this helps. I usually pick mine whenever they have any purple on them. Right now we have Crowder purple hull, top pick pink eyes and black eyes. Not big beds, raised beds. Just doing the best we can😉

[@tambrasmith9707]

I picked purple hulls and black eyed peas this morning and listen to the 2 new videos while I shelled them …I started shelling peas with my Nannie when I was 5 or 6 years old..I would love to sit and shell peas with her again..makes me cry..are you gonna make sum corn bread to go with your peas? Hope u had a great Birthday !

[@wingandaprayer7777]

Thank you so much for sharing this information with us. I am one of those people who wouldn't know...but thanks to you sharing your knowledge and wisdom, I do now! Y'all are awesome.

[@GlenWoodfordnofrills4shills]

Great video today guys!!! I'm doing brown beans and hammock today!

[@paularizzo5217]

Nothing better than fresh peas! "Pink-eye purple hull pea patch" sounds like it should be a country song. E-i-e-i-o...

[@carlprice64]

My white peas are still making. I too like snaps in my peas. Of course the deer are nibbling on them now. I still have plenty for myself.

[@conniecrites5148]

Great video. I ordered Badia Ham flavored seasoning from Amazon and add it to my beans. When I canned my Great Northern, Navy, Pinto & Lima beans I only added salt. So this gives it a really good taste. Of course I add some bacon grease but not to much because it makes them greasy. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@lorenstribling6096]

I always cook mine with a strip of fatty bacon that I have lightly browned with the drippings of course. Peas, cornbread, fresh tomatoes, raw onion and a spoon full of chow chow. Nothing better.

[@Jomama02]

I've always thought of these as beans and not peas. Lol. When you say peas, I think of green round balls like sweet peas! Im not from the south, can you tell? ROFL!!! My grandmother and mother always put a little salt pork in them while cooking.

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Morning 🌄.. Thank you for the tips. I'm greatful for them.

[@doublejfarmshomestead4501]

Cooked a big pot full yesterday. They are so good!

[@Marcosworld77]

I like to pick some that are getting close, barely pink and my wife mashes the peas while cooking them along with mature peas and it makes a really good gravy in it.

[@janebadon3988]

Thank you-I didn’t know!

[@southerngrandma8279]

So glad you made this video explaining ! I also love snaps in mine . thanks for the good laugh about the Deer.

[@weathermanplus]

Good morning brother!

[@DeepSouthHomestead]

Good morning brother

[@MyTNMtnHome]

Yum, field peas and snaps!

[@lynettetucker544]

🌞Good morning Danny and Wanda lunch or dinner is looking delicious enjoy.

[@john_Caji315_adams]

Some of the Best eating Field Peas out there. Thank Y'all Danny...From The Country For North Carolina

[@oldnanz]

Thanks for sharing all That you do.

[@thomasthibedeau8900]

Y'all be getting more rain than we are in NW Arkansas.