You will never know how much it is appreciated that you share your failures as well as successes.

Those are purple eye hull peas. You harvest them when they turn purple. They are canned as a field pea or you can freeze them, no blanching needed. My sister in law shells them, puts them in a freezer container, and then pulls out what she wants to cook that night. They are delicious with bacon.

@sunshineinfla222

2 жыл бұрын

Pink eyed purple hull peas

@SB_McCollum

2 жыл бұрын

Luuuv crowder peas, in our tiny corner of the world it comes out "crider" peas. Let them dry and cook when ready. A little fatback, a little seasoning, serve with greens, okra, smoked pork, corn bread for the pot likker. Nom nom nom.

@opalezell2166

2 жыл бұрын

Rachel, I turned my cows into my garden.It was so dry and weeds everywhere.,then it started raining."Oh ye of litte faith".I could have tomatoes,bell peppers.okra,feild peas,ect.

@lindaedwards9756

2 жыл бұрын

@@SB_McCollum oh yeah. Making my mouth water.

@jimmynewell5815

2 жыл бұрын

Pink eyes we freeze or can

Those are PINK EYE PURPLE HULL peas a southern staple. Can them or freeze them. Delicious

@spencem2000

2 жыл бұрын

They are delicious!

@kellygreen8255

2 жыл бұрын

Southern chick here. Yep. That’s a purple hull pea!

@BettyWhiteJr

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, a definite southern fave. Love them!

@joanfels6641

2 жыл бұрын

You can let them continue to grow and dry, let them fill out and then shell them and can or freeze . Cook as you would pintos. Yummy

@vahlla78

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that’s what I think as well. I did a late planting of them and they’re flowering now. So good!

Those are a wonderful southern cowpea or pink eye purple hull. They grow prolifically in the southern states and are a staple in every pantry…yum❤️

Those are what's known as Cow Peas, that you have their looks to be an heirloom variety. This is why the south makes the distinction of field peas (cow peas) and English peas (traditional green peas). Field peas can be eaten small and tender in a stir fry before beans form or harvested after beans form. Once beans form, wait for the beans to be visible, hard when you run your fingers on them. Snap like a green bean or peas and shuck the beans out of their pods. They do not require blanching and can be treated as any other bean (freeze, vaccum seal, can etc). The best thing about field peas (cow peas) they grow in *any soil* and thrive in poor soil. They were brought over to the US from Africa to the southern states and have been a diet staple for hundreds of years. For a great video on what to do with field peas and how to grow them check out Lazy Dog Farm on YT. It's Travis's channel formerly of the Hoss Tools channel. The video they made last year was amazing! Hope that helps!

Gardening is like being a parent. No one does it perfectly… but you never give up and just do your best! I enjoy your channel Rachel. 🙂

I love in the forefront of the screen, we can see all the insect life going about their business!! Healthy soil is ALIVE!!! LOVE IT!! :)

The beans look like pink eye purple hull peas, a southern favorite. Harvest when the pod is turning purple. I freeze or eat fresh. I cook these peas much longer than I cook other beans...probably 1 1/2 - 2 hours.

I love how you share not only your success but your short comings❤️. It makes those of us that have failures feel just a little better about ourselves💕. We are all human and you are so encouraging!

I do wish you would film the harvest. That's my absolute favorite part to watch. Nothing better than fresh food coming up out of the ground that you grew yourself! It's amazing what God does for us

Trying to pull out that grass is very difficult, you deserve a glass of wine! Cheers to you and all that you do!

Rachel I appreciate that you are honest and can share - I feel bad when life happens and I think I am the only one... so there it is we just can't do it all and we pray for the best in our crops.

Love the reality right down to the sounds of nature in the garden. We can ALL relate!

I think those are purple hull peas, I have not grown them but most southerners love them. They are supposedly better than black eyed peas.

Another Southern girl here. They are purple hull peas. Gotta have them in the South. Pick them when they are full. Shell and blanch for a minute or so and then put in freezer bags. Cook them with some bacon grease and they are so wonderful.

@rebeccawallace4240

2 жыл бұрын

Ame they sure are

I just pulled up 8 carrots. I planted 18. Never planted carrots before, so it was a test. Their small, but tasty. I just ate them. Not enough to can. Now, next year I’ll do more.

Thank YOU for showing this video to us. I know maybe it was awkward or embarrassing to you. Thank you for being honest and brave. NOT everything we grow will be a success! I had my first crop failure with tomatoes last year. It happens!

I'm gonna save the tops from the carrots this year. I think I'll add them to soups. Any other ideas? Thanks for showing your weeds, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

I did EXACTLY the same thing this year. It's one whole corner 😭 Thankfully, I have deep mulch there. No time with work to really get out there and it was 104 here today. So each day, I get out there early and pull about a 4-foot square of grass. The struggle is real and you are not alone 🥰

@karendaniel8149

2 жыл бұрын

Those look like pink-eyed purple hull peas. We plant them every year. Can (pressure) them up in pints with 1/2 tsp salt and a piece of bacon for 75 minutes. Serve with cornbread.

Yeah, they are probably purple hull cowpeas. They are tasty. When you cook them turns the liquid in the peas cloudy, darker colored unlike cream 40s or the like. I love cowpeas. I harvest them when the pea is "big". The hull doesn't always necessarily have to be purple to harvest in my experience, so long as the peas look filled. Some people just let them grow and dry on the vine and harvest them that way, I don't love that method so I don't do that. I feel like the more you harvest them, the more they produce so I pick them as soon as they look ready. My favorite activity that we did as kids with my aunts and grandparents was sitting around shelling peas with them.

I did not get a great carrot harvest this year so I planted them for a fall garden. They are just starting to germinate so I have my fi gers crossed. My three year old grandson is my garden helper and he decided to harvest early. My own fault. I was letting him come out and we would pick some for dinner. I would find a decent sized one and let him pick it. It it was an oopsie we would just say baby carrot and move on. Last month he decided to do some harvesting on his own while out in the yard with Momma and new baby brother. He decimated the bed but was very proud of himself for picking baby carrots for the baby! He did get some bigger ones but basically not enough to do anything with. Carrots are his favorite so he enjoyed a couple of meals with them! I let him help prepare the new bed for fall but stressed that Grandma had to harvest the carrots, he can do the peas which he loves to pick and shell. I expect him to be a master gardener by the time he's twelve. He already knows more than his Grandpa! LOL

The garden looks amazing! 70 deg sound wonderful. Still so hot and no rain. Good to see you. Rochelle

I water before I weed. Everything come up so easier. Pulling those Carrots come up easy too.

Purple hull peas...the bane of my childhood! Spent many summer hours harvesting those. Taste wonderful no matter how you cook em. We dried and canned ours.

Yes! A true Southern favorite, the Purple Hull Pea, or Cow Peas. Once you have had your fill with the fresh eating and preserving, you can let dry on vine and then harvest as a dried bean. Store in a jar for black-eyes for a mid-winter soup. Delicious! Enjoy your channel very much. Great editing. Like the shorter videos, to the point, not long winded. Well done footage. Love to learn all the ideas of preserving. Rachel, you have definitely got my wheels turning. Thanks for sharing your lives with us.

@joannahines6413

2 жыл бұрын

Also save some dried peas for next year and replant. That's what I do! The gift that keeps on giving!

This year has been rough all around. I personally (Southwest Missouri) have had the worst season of gardening all around in years. The extreme heat coupled with 3 months of no rain made it difficult. You are an inspiration and we love the work you and Todd do here!

The garden is look lush and beautiful Rachel! Yes, I find storing carrots in the crisper bin in our extra fridge in a medium called "coco coir" to keep them fresh for almost a year! It works well. You don't have to have a root cellar. Works for most root crops. Happy Harvesting. 🥕

My carrots are booming this year ... first time.. I just want to look at them and all their glory. I know you understand.. You have a fantastic crop yourself Rachel , I know last season was fantastic for the carrots in your garden , I love all your shows and learn a lot. Thank you Rachel.

I love how you show the great,good and not so good! I have learned so much from the two of you. Even my husband watches with me occasionally! Thank you for sharing. Would love to have you guys over for coffee!Italia Patterson from CT

Ahhh I just love how honest your channel is…the good, bad and the ugly. Although I would take those tiny carrots for sure! Mine turned out itty bitty-er than yours! 🙃 The rest look great! It probably was the germination in Spring that hurt that one area. Another ‘keeping it real’ video that we all love so much! Enjoy the sunflowers! 🌻

Hi Reachel. The carrots are not that bad. They look great. Rachel, you are an amazing teacher. God Bless the rest of your harvest. See you soon in the next video. Maria. 😘😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

Purple hull peas Can them and eat with cornbread and onion - season with ham or bacon. Can also make purple hull pea jelly with the hulls - similar to grape jelly - cook down strain the liquid and use just like grape juice to make jelly. The peas are delicious and very common in the south. Can make cold salad from those peas too

@jennifercockrell3374

2 жыл бұрын

I live in South Carolina and I've been growing purple peas for several years now and I have never heard of making jelly from the hulls. I've made corncob jelly but this is a new one for me. Does it really taste like grape jelly?

@SB_McCollum

2 жыл бұрын

Yaaas, cold salad!

@amfarmsllc5624

2 жыл бұрын

@@jennifercockrell3374 I am from Camden, SC and just put up about 20 bags in my freezer. My goats loved the shells! I was shocked but every afternoon they ran to the fence when they saw me coming with the shells.

@fzjohnson

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. This is so interesting. I was going to suggest flageolet beans if they dry a creamy green colour but as I'm in the UK you all have it sussed for your region. Thanks for being so real about your garden, Rachel. It matters. 😊

@rainspringing

2 жыл бұрын

@@jennifercockrell3374 If you have enough of the deep purple pods, vs green pods it taste like a mixture of delicate honey and grapes. It's really really good. Especially as a fridge jelly. Just to note though. It's in the iffy category for canning depending on the system used to determine safety, plus how much added lemon juice is used. It's basically a gelled sugar syrup from a low acid vegetable. There isn't an approved recipe with enough added acid to bring it to the correct 4.6 or lower pH.

Wow magnifique potager Merci pour ce beau partage 😉 A bientôt

We grew up eating those harvested at green, for Sunday best. Seeds plump, but shell hasn't thinned out too much and shell. So incredibly delicious!!! I harvest them only at green, unless I'm saving that pod for seeds. More work, but so much more reward. Some shell them at all stages, many wait until they are purple and easier to shell. Can up, blanch-free freeze, or whatever at any stage. Canning will change the color dramatically on green shelled, so I'd freeze those. Green stage is a delicate flavor, so just water, boil then high simmer until tender (about 20 mins vs over an hour after green stage), finish with butter and salt. They won't look pretty, but that first bite...YUM. Also a good stage to add snap beans to the peas/beans. Especially when you all are dead sick of snap beans. I've added up to half n half, with the success rate of the meal still holding strong. ;) Those purple hull peas are a treasure. After green stage, they are a meatier flavor, and go well with bacon, garlic, etc. I'm really hoping some fell and you will be foraging them next year. Amazingly versatile, highly prolific, packed with flavor, just about the perfect food.

I layer my carrots in a 5 gallon bucket with pine shavings, then mist the top so they are just a little damp. then they can be stored in a cool place like your basement for the winter. I store my beets the same way.

Good job pushing thru and getting something done! And you still got some food harvested. You get a gold 🌟!

Watch Dan in Home in the Sticks! He grows a ton of those Purple Hull Peas and walks you thru how to can them.

I planted my carrots like you this year and found the germination immensely better than covering them with a board or anything like that. Thank you!

If I had a choice between facetime with my grandkids and gardening the grandkids win every time. Soon they will be able to help you outside and what a joy it has been to teach them about plants and flowers and bees and butterflies. The weeds can wait. My garden has been so so this year, but I have spent more time with family. Thank goodness for my Mennonite store as I had ONE lonely peach on my tree. Monday is peach delivery day from Michigan.

We all fail on some crops at some time. Thanks for being real and showing your carrot harvest!

Purple hull peas. They are delicious. Hope you enjoy them. They are our favorites. I cook the shelled peas 5 minutes in a pressure cooker in a little salted water then reduce pressure instantly and serve with with a pat of butter. You pick them before they dry out when they appear full and purple. If they dry you can soak them and cook like pintos. Good both ways. They freeze really well. Just blanche them, cool and put in freezer bags.

They look like Purple hulls peas and there delicious with ham hock... I watched your potato canning video and a couple other's. I am enjoying your very much!! Thank you for your time! Blessings to you all!!!

Purple hull peas, delicious. We boil with a little piece of streak o lean, or bacon, salt, cook till tender,bbroth will be brownish. Cook down , but leave broth, it's so good with cornbread. I will pour broth and peas over cornbread, so good with sliced tomatoes, corn on the cob, fried okra. I live in Georgia,they have always loved and sought after here.

Yup , I feel ya. I wake up extremely early every day. So I have learned to just get things done, that way when the sun does come up, I am done my inside things and then the rest of the day is free to do outside work or whatever. It started when my kids were little and I had to work 3rd shift. Tough hours.

I love my 1870's Homestead hoodie!

I leave my carrots in the ground through winter. I’ll dig through 2’ of snow and pull them. They’re so sweet after they freeze! I’m about 1 1/2 hours north of your cabin.

Honesty! That’s why we love you!❤️

First year trying to grow carrots. We have raised beds, good dirt, however haven't fertilized them, nit even sure when to harvest them, every 2 weeks I pull one out but they are tiny, lol. We shall see, I did turnips and radishes in the same bed, and they were successful. Nowhere near the space that you have, but we try. Showed my hubby the 6tier revolving planter you used in a program stream, and we are doing our strawberries in them. I'm in zone 6 and have two potted fig trees also going strong. I enjoy the two of you so much, ty for all the insight

We just pulled out our peas today. The heat been been getting here in northern bc has been hard on them. But we were happy with what we got. You can only do what you can do. You are a busy person, working full time and sometimes life just gets in the way. Great video Rachel 🇨🇦💕

Those are field peas of some sort (think black eyed peas). You harvest and shell them when the outer hull starts to just get leathery for fresh peas (that still have to be cooked), or you can let them dry on the bush and use them as a dried black eyed pea type peas. I hope that makes sense! The flood is where all the grass came from. Flood waters carry those weed and grass seeds like a champ!

FYI...Purple hulls can be frozen or pressure canned. Cook them with smoked hock or bacon.

Purple Hull Pea, I have picked and shelled hundreds of bushels. The shell will turn a dark purple . Love to take a large bowl of them with some tomato and onion chopped up and maybe a little cornbread .

went to Block's last week, was great, we got purple cabbages and big bag of onions. Doing purple cabbage slaw, and your onion soup recipe, also carmalized onions all for the first time You have inspired me through the years, we finally have the time with husband being retired to get these types of things done. Thanks guys!

Rachael is the best! Even takes time to help this intermediate vegan canner find her way. Much love!! 💚✌️

Sorry it didn’t work out so well but enjoy the farmer’s market!! A great reason to get out for a little trip. Take care.

You are just precious. I had 20 minutes today to finally sit down and all I wanted was to hear you in your garden :) thank you!!

As others have said…those are purple hull peas…some call them pink eye peas. Harvest when the pods are….purple. The one you picked wasn’t quite ready. Cook with bacon or some type of fat meat. Try adding a couple of okra pods when they’re almost done. (Don’t cook the okra too long…it shouldn’t be falling apart and “slimy”, but just tender) Very southern. Serve over white rice. Mmmm! I blanch and freeze mine to preserve.

That was my carrots too. I just slowly, pick them hoping they get bigger, but I just give them to our 🐰 🐇

Green with envy over your weather! Still over 100° down here in tx, I’m ready for a break!

Pink eye purple hull peas. They are wonderful. Need to let them get really purple before harvesting.

Still looks great to me. I’m still waiting on my carrots for this year as we were late planting this year. The garden this year is just not as good as past years but I’ll take what I can get.

@waynedickson2230

2 жыл бұрын

Lp

@waynedickson2230

2 жыл бұрын

Pp

Look like purple hull peas...good eating. There are delicious recipes for them on KZread. Once you cook them, you guys will love them. I freeze a few qts. every year.

i overplanted my carrots thinking they wouldn't produce and now I am overwhelmed with them; time to can some more.....my green tomato relish and pickles are done and now to wait for the "thousands " of different tomatoes ripening for sauce and stewed tomatoes. Still doing zucchini relish, green beans and the onion and potato harvest as well as more cucumbers to make more relish and pickles.

Don’t beat yourself up please. You two are amazing people here. I do enjoy waiting your videos.

My carrots didn’t do well this year either. I went out to harvest them today and only found 4! The grass had taken over and I guess choked them out

Well I just learned what purple eye hole peas are. I only tried carrots one head total failure but she encouraged me to try again. I have to go back to some of your previous videos and see when it was done right. Thank you for the info

Are you ok Rachel? You seem a little depressed and not yourself. Will keep you in my heart and prayers 💗💗

Way better than I did this year!! Haha but I mean ..this is only my third year. I am falling in love with the "little fingers" carrots though...they're fast and super compact so I just love em

Any chance you could show those delightful pigs getting their carrot top treats (or whatever it is) at the end? I live the fact you say they are like dogs in their playfulness.

You need to give yourself a break. You sound really tired and fed up. You do a good job most of the time, we can't be brilliant all of the time. Take care 💜

Purple hull peas or red ripper peas. Type of field pea or cowpea we grow down south! I shell mine, and store in freezer bags. Cook like black eyed peas.

I'm with you in solidarity. You'll be back to your usual carrot queendom before you know it. 🧡🥕👸🏻

My carrots didn't do well this year either and I did keep them weeded. I'll try again next year.

Those look like purple hull peas- a type of cowpea that grows like crazy here in East TX… extremely yummy when cooked with bacon and onions!😋

Honey those are southern field peas, could be pink eye purple hull. My favorite. You can call cook them at this stage with some fat back, ham hock or bacon. They get creamy and yummy. Or dry them and cook like any dried pea. Black eyed peas , etc. southern staple. We’ve got them planted to fall harvest. I can’t wait. Ask your daughter. She has probably been introduced to them by now . South Carolina loves their field peas . 😄

@kayethompson2256

2 жыл бұрын

We season with fatback...western North Carolina mountains. We fry it out like bacon and use the grease to season green beans, purple hulls, fried cabbage, greens like mustard or turnip greens to name a few things. My family eats the crisp and brown fat back after it is cooked--a real treat.

@lindaedwards9756

2 жыл бұрын

@@kayethompson2256 yum-o 😋

Pink Eye Purple Peas. Best to alone pick them when they are a deep purple. We love them here in the deep south. We call the Papaws Peas because my Dad always planted them and then my husband continued and our grandchildren call them Papaws Peas because my hubby is Papaw. I freeze mine in quart freezer bags and fill with water. Cook them with salt and oil and they are delish.

Those are cow peas and you don’t eat them raw. They’re probably purple hulls but they may be a different variety. Best way to know when they’re ready to pick is when the part of the pod between the first pea and the stem starts to soften and feel more like paper but before the pod starts to dry. You cook them like black eyed peas. You can freeze them in water or just let them dry on the plant and store them like dried beans. Very good for you and yummy when made with bacon/ bacon grease and some salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder. Or some Tony Chacheres Cajun seasoning.

that’s more carrots than we ever eat in a year. looks like a good harvest to me. only way i really like carrots are raw with dip, or pickled spicy carrots with jalapeños

@crazycatslave

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a recipe for your pickled spicy carrots

Purple hull peas are amazing! My mother in law from Mississippi taught me all about them

If I were doing that task, I would loosen the soil with a digging fork (some people call it a potato digging fork) first.

They are called White Acre peas got the same thing when I ordered the Kentucky Blue Pole Bean. Hoss Tools replaced my Kentucky Blue Pole Beans when I notified them that the seeds I got where not pole beans. They sent a letter telling me what they were and a new pack of Kentucky Blue Pole Bean. The White Acre peas are like Zipper peas with a nutty taste to them when cooked. Realty good eating here in the south.

Yup you can smell, taste n feel fall right now. ❤️

Your garden still looks good.

Such a shame with your carrot season. From your previous videos I remember past bumper harvests. Rest year next year-hopefully you can stretch it through

Purple hull peas and once they turn deep purple they are ready and so good! How lucky! BTW I've had the worst year for grass in my garden as well. Never had like this year EVER!

I wish my carrot harvest looked like that, I still get poor germination and teeny tiny carrots.

Pink eye purple hull. Very good.

Let them Dry on the wine! I grow them every year! Nice small bean that I substitute for black eye peas.

You done the best you could with the time you had. No shame there! I just posted our carrot harvest video this morning.

Your garden is beautiful 😍

They can dry on the vine for dry cow peas aka blackeyed peas (pink)

I remember last years carrots harvest-- huge!!! And this one is gorgeous too !!!

I haven't had a great carrot growing experience so far, but I have not tried it here. At the new place. I definitely can feel fall coming on here too. Not ready for that yet.

They look like pink eyed purple hull peas. Shell them and cook them with a ham hock or bacon. Don't let them dry on the plant, that will signal them to stop producing. You can can them, same as you would any other peas. Similar to blackeyed peas. I don't care for dried, but love them fresh or canned fresh.

Those look like purple hill peas. Harvest when the shell is purple, shell them, Blanche them and freeze. They cook up nicely with some bacon in them and sometime I drop a handful of okra in them. Eat with some cornbread. yummy!!!

Purple hull peas... if so you harvest like regular peas, you shell them and they cook up like black eyed peas.. I grow them here in southern Texas.

Purple hull peas. They grow like crazy here in Texas. We love them! Harvest when the pod is purple. I can mine, but some folks put them in the freezer.

Purple hull peas. You harvest them and shell them when they turn purple but not dried out. They don’t have to be completely purple. Lots of recipes for cooking them on KZread.

Uuugggghhhh - we call that crab grass in Australia and it’s the bane of my life!

You can let the cowpeas dry on the plant and harvest like drying beans, but they can “shatter” where they open and you lose the beans. You can also harvest them green to boil and eat fresh, or harvest the whole pods when young and eat like green beans. Look up recipes for black eyed peas. I like them in a curry.