Favorite Kind Of Peas

[ga. prime]

Straight out of the garden, I like Pinkeye Purple Hulls best. Cream 40's and Sadandys, I like better out of the freezer. This year we're having a bad drought and the Sadandys have really out performed the other two productivity-wise. I don't irrigate peas.

 

[MikeC]

Damn deer demolished my peas last night. Was gonna pick next week too.

They obviously like those "Mississippi Purple" Crowders as much as me.

 

[alabama]

Mike; Next year you should plant your pearl millet patch in peas. That should be plenty for you, the deer and your cows. It should also leave plenty of "N" for your winter grazing.
I plowed my garden in yesterday to kill weeds and get ready for the cover crop.

 

[MikeC]

Mike; Next year you should plant your pearl millet patch in peas. That should be plenty for you, the deer and your cows. It should also leave plenty of "N" for your winter grazing.
I plowed my garden in yesterday to kill weeds and get ready for the cover crop.

Good idea but I think I would be the one left out, if anyone one was.

You plany any peanuts this year? Those were good ones you had last year!

 

[alabama]

I planted a few penuts but they were just too dry. They got plowed yesterday too.

 

[lukelangford]

zipper cowpeas.

 

[Post Oak]

Red Ripper peas used to be my favorite with their boiled peanut flavor. I also liked the rapid growth and vining of the Red Rippers that helped to shade out the weeds and they grow well in sandland,but in the last few years White Acre peas became my favorite because of their superior flavor. Now I cannot eat peas or beans because I am a borderline diabetic and they have a high starchy sugar content.

 

[skyhightree1]

I like sugar snap peas

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

We love the sugar snap peas. Just transplanted them to the garden this week. A month earlier than last year.

 

[skyhightree1]

be nice deer demolished my peas last night. Was gonna pick next week too.

They obviously like those "Mississippi Purple" Crowders as much as me.

When I had deer problems in the garden my secret was a 30/30 shot to the stomach so it runs off and dies in the woods and you don't gotta fool with it tends to help take care of the deer that have a taste for gardens.

 

[ga.prime]

When I had deer problems in the garden my secret was a 30/30 shot to the stomach so it runs off and dies in the woods and you don't gotta fool with it tends to help take care of the deer that have a taste for gardens.

That might work for you but for here that wouldn't get rid of the deer problem any more than killing one fire ant mound would get rid of the fire ant problem. What works here is an 8 ft fence.

 

[skyhightree1]

Wow here when you pop one and its bleeding out all over the place the others tend not to come back lol so far. I went to the garden and checked my peas

 

[ga.prime]

Seven years later and still planting purple hulls, sandandies, and creme 40's.

 

[skyhightree1]

ga.prime is that the fence you were speaking of?

 

[ga.prime]

ga.prime is that the fence you were speaking of?

Yes, that's an 8 ft fence.

 

[skyhightree1]

that is insane i have never saw any fence like that around a garden. I am surprised they still dont try to jump in there. Maybe we dont have that problem cause there is more deer there or there is alot of other row crops they can eat instead.

 

[ga.prime]

:lol2: I've got two gardens like that. This is the first year for the one pictured. The other one I've grown gardens in for three years and haven't had a deer get in it yet. I've tried every way imaginable to keep deer out of the garden and the 8 ft fence is the only thing that works. You probably don't have as many deer there, skyhigh. The deer used to not be so bad around here when there were less of them and you could keep the deer damage to a minimum with hot wire but that doesn't work anymore. If I only had hot wire around that garden in the pic, it would be completely destroyed by deer in two or three days.

 

[skyhightree1]

ga.prime I think I have to agree with you on the deer. Do you have to put it up and take that down ever year when you break the garden up? If you do you deserve every vegetable in that garden and then some lol I would just put a garden in front of my dogs kennels if it were that bad here lol

 

[ga.prime]

I had a garden 50 feet from a dog pen. Had two pointers and two treeing walkers in it. Deer ignored the dogs. I've actually seen a deer just stand and look at a pointer that was barking right in her face. The first garden I made with an 8 ft fence was smaller than this one and I didn't leave a way to get into it with a tractor. I'd just no till plant it with a push planter after herbicide killing all vegetation. On this new one I have it where I can open both ends completely up and re-close them without too much work. That way I can drive a tractor through it. The first garden was a quarter acre, this one is a half acre. All I have to do to open an end is remove a few staples from the corner post and take up three 10 ft t-posts that are between the corner posts and pull the netting back out of the way. The netting is attached to the t-posts with zip ties.

 

[skyhightree1]

wow.. your deer are ruthless.. lol That is a lil work but worth the effort.Where do you buy 10 foot t posts? I havent seen anything over 7 foot before