A mini "Which Team" pole:

Which is your favorite to eat? Do you prefer Southern peas or green peas?

What is your preferred method of eating them? Cooked (how?), or raw?

Which do you grow?

Define "garden peas" please. Maybe it's a southern term? My peas are all green. I eat them raw as snacks while I tend the garden, and also cooked. Some are frozen for winter.

Hmmm-mmm- I should not post at 2am!

I corrected myself:

Southern peas or green peas?

I prefer Southern field green cow peas cooked with a little bacon or ham
Sometimes mixed with okra,corn,butterbeans/limas,and tomatos.Gotta have jalapeno corn bread with both.
We call garden green peas English peas here
I only like them in soups,stews or pot pies.

Charlie- we love southern peas cooked just like you described. We've also taken to eating them raw as well.

What's the name of the daylilly in your avatar? I *must* have one!

Hmmmm.....I don't even know what "southern peas" are, so I guess my answer is green.
I grow shelling peas (which some call "english" peas) and snow peas, which probably don't fall in to either of your categories. What can you expect from a northerner, and a city girl at that????

Here ya go, Moms...

Southern peas/Pinkeye Purple Hulls.

Shoe

Whoops. Better pic so you can see them...

Moms- I think both of your would fall into the "green" category! We also enjoy Green Peas- sugar snaps and snow peas, both of which usually never make it to the house because they get grazed on straight from the garden.

I don't know southern Peas but love sugar snaps for growing. This year I planted several varieties: Sugar Snap Sprint, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Snappy, Super Sugar Snap, Sugar Star, and Cascadia. Of all these varieties the Cascadia outshone the others by miles. All the others produced far less and have dried up. The Cascadias are still huge mounds of green and have not stopped producing even during this horrendous heat wave (but they have obviously slowed down a lot!). My husband is now letting them set seeds for next year. I had intended to have them over and done with at this point to give the row of soy beans room! He likes his sugar snaps cooked but I prefer them raw.

Thanks, Shoe

Trish my Avitar is a seedling out of IMPERIALIMPRESSIONS x LINDA BECK x LARRY'S OBSESSION
I see where Dave has moved the Cubit Dayly Forum here
Thanks Dave
My 2010 seedlings start on page 4
If I can find that one in the weeds I'll send you one this fall
I have not posted any 2011 seedlings as they have been sorry with the heat and drought.
Daylilies can be a vegetable

Charlie- post away! You have some magnificent specimens!!

We eat daylily blooms! It counts as greens, I'm sure!

Shoe,Nice haul
Are they Pink Eye Purple Hull or MS.PURPLE Hull
My favorite is Red Ripper a rapid climber
I bet your back was aching after that picking

Green peas here ,fresh in the garden , very few make it to the house. The type used in stir- fry, make it into salads and stir-fry.
My kids all grown now still do not like cooked peas, they always ate them raw in the garden.
They call cooked green peas ''mushy peas''

I didn't know what "southern peas" were either, or at least I only thought of them as being dried -- no idea why it never occurred to me that they would also be eaten fresh! Since I've never had them, I guess I have to say green peas are my favorite, although that doesn't seem quite fair. I can say with authority that I don't like the 'hot boiled peanuts" that southerners seem to favor!

If you ever get the chance to eat Purple Hull Peas, you should! They might even be in your grocery's freezer section.

Bleh with the boiled peanuts.

Trish, I will look for them -- but you must remember I am in the boonies of the north, if I can't find them here I'll look when I go somewhere more "civilized" !

(are the peas purple? or the pods?)

The pods are purple, the peas are whitish.

Trust me, I understand boonies.

SOUTHERN PEAS = what some people generally refer to as "beans". Purple Hull peas, Cream Peas, Black-Eyed Peas, Zipper Cream Peas, Kidney Beans, Lady Cream Peas, Rattlers,

GREEN PEAS = English Peas, those little green, china balls that they make split pea soup out of, plus sugar snap peas, and snow peas.