BLACK EYED PEAS ARE HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO WEEVIL DAMAGE. IN THIS VIDEO I TELL YOU HOW TO PREVENT WEEVIL DAMAGE TO YOUR BLACK EYED, PURPLE HULL OR OTHER FIELD PEAS.
Perhaps I should have started it out a little different. I have been meaning to finish up talking about Black Eyed peas and now I have. I have other videos I want to make and I will get working on them. Thank you for watching my videos. OAG
You can also dry can the peas to kill the Weevils. I pack then into pint jars, set them in a pan put into a 180 to 200 degree oven for 60 mins. I put the lids in a pan and place them into the oven for the last 15 mins. When they come out i put the lids on them and set aside. They will seal 😀Thanks Old Alabama hardener for sharing your knowledge.
I’m growing my first pink eye purple hull cow peas at age 54 in 2024. I’d like to dry them and store them in glass jars for cooking in future months or years. Or also to sow for future crops. I’ll be watching all of your videos. God bless you and your family. Vicki in California.
Today I am a grandmother and I still remember that my grandmother had no freezers but to store beans and not grow the larvae she would put pepper and bay leaves along with the beans and I don't remember seeing larvae in the beans she kept. When I buy beans from the farm and not from the stores, I still do the same and I can have the beans on the shelf, in jars for 3 or 4 years, I've never had problems and, to use them I wash the beans that are always perfect. What is admirable is how in the old days, people could find processes to solve problems, nowadays people want other people to solve their problems. Although not yet many, fortunately some young people are beginning to realize the importance of old knowledge.
I’m not sure if this works because I haven’t done it but I saw it on another RU-vid channel......this gal said her grandma used to put broken pieces of china in her flour to keep bugs out and weevils from hatching. 🤷🏼♀️ This gal buys odd pieces of china at thrift stores, wraps them in an old towel, breaks into large chunks, smooths the edge with sandpaper, wash and dries good and then stores in her dry goods. AOG, have you heard of this ? I live in the north and it’s freezing cold outside shortly after harvest to I store stuff in the garage or outside but it has to be protected from other critters then ......everything wants our food 🤣
Thank you OAG! I look forward to your next video when it's time to make another one. Have a restful fall and winter until the work begins again! Thank you for being here for us.
If you feel like making another video this winter I'm betting it would be amazing to see your pantry. Thank you for a, of your videos they are informative and I enjoy watching your eyes sparkle
Thank you L, I appreciate you watching my videos. I used to grow Purple Hull peas and thought they were the best tasting ones until I tried Black Eyed peas, now I like them best. C.
I bought eight pounds of shelled purple hull peas at the Amish auction and have them all canned now. My Whippoorwill cowpeas I grew I’m storing dry. Hope your week is going great. 😊💚🌱
Hello and welcome to my videos. Yep, I plan to have a good fall and winter and be ready to start gardening all over in the spring. Thanks for watching my videos. OAG
Gees I thought you were not going to make any more videos started my sad face, but yahoo your going to make more. Thank you.😄 for sharing good information.
Just want to you to know you are loved and appreciated! Thank you for all your videos and helpful information over the years and to your wonderful wife who lets you share 😅
Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. I'm getting old, 80 years old this past summer, and I want to document in videos as much of my knowledge and experience as I can. Thanks for watching. OAG
Really glad you clarified "my last video". When I buy flour and corn meal I always put them in my freezer for a couple of weeks and sometimes even longer. That started after I went to get some flour from my canister and found it full of bugs/weevils. Since then I never put flour in a canister but instead keep it in my fridge. ewww Thanks for the black eyed peas infor Sir. Love your channel. 😊 😊
Thank you. The same logic applies to corn, when the worm tries to eat the modern day corn, it kills the worm. So, if eating the corn kills the worm, why would we want to eat the corn. Thanks for watching my videos. OAG
Hello Robert. I hope you are doing well this morning. And of course you know I am happy to share my gardening experience with you. I appreciate you watching and commenting on my videos. C.
I live in Monrovia, Madison County, AL and have been growing field peas as a second crop after spring harvest for seven years and haven't found any weevil damage to my peas and I don't poison them at all. After shelling and before cooking, my wife looks through the peas for signs of weevils and she hasn't found any either. I grew up on Sand Mountain and we had weevils in beans, corn, peas, peaches, apples and cotton.
Thank for the information. I think my peas shower so much damage this year because it was so hot and dry as they were maturing. I am in the same county, north end. OAG
Great video. Have you kept information about how many peas you planted and how many were harvested (buckets picked, pounds shelled, etc.)? I really enjoy your channel.
Thank you for this presentation. I admire your thorough guidelines and thoughtfulness. I subscribed when you were working with Dr . Ford Brewer on his channel. You have set a fine example for me to follow, sir.
@@OldAlabamaGardener thoughtful of you to ask. I have been working out a treatment for atrial fibrillation through exercise, weight loss and control, lower carbohydrate consumption (less than 100 grams per day) and supplemental magnesium glycinate (200mg twice daily) and ensuring that I consume enough potassium and not too much calcium. I'm fairly tall at 6'2" and am maintaining 210 lbs. down from 265 lbs. at 63 y.o. I haven't gone full keto yet because I haven't found a ketone meter. Statins or lisinopril didn't set well with me. So, anyway, I'm doing better. Rarely notice any fibrillation anymore and looking to lose 5 or 10 more pounds. You are looking pretty healthy and active. How have you been doing?
Kenny Charles: I am doing well. I am 80 years old and as you see working in the garden every day. I went on a very low carb eating and lost 55 pounds. I am now down to 145 pounds. During the winter (when I am not busy in my garden) I will make some videos on my health and what I am doing to maintain and improve my health. If you would like more information on what I am doing, put your E-mail address here, I will copy it and then remove it. OAG
@@kenycharles8600 Okay, I have your E-mail address. I will send you an E-mail in a couple minutes to make sure I have it right. And I have removed your comment with your address.
Thank you for that suggestion. During the winter I will make more videos using the vegetables I have grown and stored. In the summer time I am so busy growing and canning what I grow that I don't have time or I am too tired to cook much. Thanks for watching my videos. OAG
Last video??!! Well thank you for such and informative season! Take care O.A.G! God bless you 🙏❣️ 😇 Take care friend! Make those black eyed peas on New Year's! Lol
@@OldAlabamaGardener Aww your good dude! We all make mistakes! I was just sad to know I wouldn't be hear from you for awhile lol......with that being said, I'm sooo happy it's not your lol ast video of the year......side note, I think my tomatoes will make it thru the winter! California weather had been so weird and my plants bloomed super late. We will see. I still have blooms, green, and red tomatoes on my plant. I'm growing Romas, Big Boys, Beefsteak, Cherry, Early girl, and Sun Sweet tomatoes 🤙😋😊😁💥
Gaaaaaaah!!! At first I thought the tiny little black weevils in my kitchen were cute, but they just wouldn't stop... In my spaghetti, my rice and the motherload 😲 in my mixed beans and grains for soup, which I just put to the freezer... Been washing them down the drain all week 😬... First time I've seen them. My beans are store bought but I'm going to be sorting and freezing from now on. Thank you kindly for sharing ❤️
@@OldAlabamaGardener I guess they are now, I'm up in Ontario, Canada. I subbed in earlier. I appreciate how you respect our planet and looking forward to your shared knowledge 🌻
I don't think vacuum sealing would make any difference. It is the egg that hatches and becomes the weevil. Freezing is one sure way to kill the egg. Heating in an oven might work but I don't know what it would do to the peas. Thanks for asking that question. OAG
OAG, Do you eat the blackeye peas green? I like'em both ways. I usually freeze my seeds anyway. Didn't know about killing the weevil eggs thou. Thank you so much for the video.
Yes, freezing the peas doesn't keep them from sprouting when you plant them next spring. I will keep them in the freezer for at least two weeks and remove them. We will eat some and save some for seeds next year. Thank you for watching my videos. Subscribe if you haven't already. OAG
@@OldAlabamaGardener you're such a very sweet Gentlemen! Thank you, sincerely, for SHOWING everyone- "HOW" & "WHY" these things happen, "WHY" the bugs eat/damage the vegetables (this case, beans) and I appreciate YOU.. ..and your time! You have a very dense, (like a dense, misty "fog") ..but you have a VERY strong, BRIGHT as all heck- "aura", around you! Keep shining, Sun!
The freezing is to kill any weevil eggs that might be in the peas. After that I store them either in glass jars or Zip Loc bags. No, darkness is not important.
Interesting question. And I don't know if that will work or not. Next spring, when I am ready to plant again, I will give it a try. Thanks for watching my videos. OAG
You can probably buy organic black eyed peas at Baker Creek Seed Company. After freezing, I store them in glass jars on the shelf. Thank you for watching my videos. Please subscribe. OAG
@@OldAlabamaGardener appreciate the information. Subscribe today😊 found in neighboring city organic blackeye peas 2.99 pound. I loaded up. Putting in freezer 3 days then defrost at room temperature then will put in jars on a shelf. Hope i got this right. Thanks again. 👌
@@debstayblessed9549 I leave my black eyed peas (and other field peas) in the freezer for at least one month (longer than 3 days). And I admit that I don't know how long it takes to kill all the eggs in the peas by freezing. You will know if 3 days wasn't enough, because when you have them out of the freezer, some of the eggs will hatch and you will have weevils. Thank you for subscribing. OAG
In storing my dried peas, beans etc. I rarely see weevil damage. I've seen videos where such beans are cooked in canning jars dry. The result are peas that will supposedly store for 30 years. Can't see the point myself.
You are right. I freeze my peas as an added precaution. Years ago when I didn't have freezer, I just stored them as dry peas. Thank you for watching my videos. If you haven't yet, please subscribe to my channel. OAG
Hello and welcome to my videos. Yes, the Black Eyed peas, after being frozen to kill any insects and insect eggs, can be removed from the freezer and dried, then stored in bags or containers for long term storage. Please subscribe. Thanks for watching. OAG
@@mistastabs5840 Thank you, I appreciate you watching my videos. I try to give you enough details so you can copy me and be successful. You can find other of my videos by doing a Google search on: OAG (then the name of the vegetable), for example: OAG Tomatoes Will bring up all my videos on tomatoes. Or OAG green beans. OAG
@@OldAlabamaGardener you can heat them in the oven but I never will again. After heating you can't use them for seed, also heating also destroys a lot of the nutrients. Even though they were sealed after about 5 years the black beans were really tough when I tried to cook some. Just wouldn't cook done. I ended up throwing out a half gallon of black beans.
Makes me want to try black eyed peas. Always enjoyed rattlesnake. I even accept worm damage on corn, just cut the tips of the ears off. Try to sell it to anyone they'll lose their minds. Worms won't eat modern corn ... neither will I.
You are right. Actually the worms do try to eat the corn, it just kills them before they can do much damage. And, if the corn kills the worm that tries to eat it, then why would we want to eat it? Thanks for watching my videos. OAG
@@OldAlabamaGardener OK. I enjoy the line. I was talking to a farmer who worked with it. We were both complaining and it just came out that way. It's a lose/lose for me, I don't like the taste or the genetic shenanigans. I don't buy the line we must feed the world. The world should be able to feed itself. Take care.
@@tomjones4318 I agree that the reason American farmers use Round-Up and so many other chemicals is not to feed the world, but to fatten their bank account. Its all about money. OAG
@@OldAlabamaGardener Can I please ask you? I never had homegrown black eyed peas. Do you enjoy them better than homegrown purple hulled and rattlesnake peas?
@@tomjones4318 I used to think purple hulls were the best field peas you could grow/eat. That is until I tried back eyed peas. I like black eyed peas both as green shell out and as dry peas better than purple hull. I like Rattle Snake Pole Beans (RSPB), as green or snap beans better than any other green beans, I have not tried RSPB as shell out beans. OAG
There is absolutely nothing wrong with how you shell died black eyed peas. If, while still in your 5 gallon plastic bucket, you get a clean wood 2x4 and crush the peas, still in the shell, most of them will be shelled. That will save you a bunch of time however you will for sure have all of the "worm damaged" ones included. For me, when I add water to wash them prior to cooking, most - if not all, of the worm and weevil damaged peas will float to the top.
I promise my wife and I were just talking about you today as we picked a haul of black eyed peas today. Now once they've been in the freezer for a week or two can you leave them in the freezer? I've heard freezing without blanching can make them bitter.
I have not hear that freezing could make them bitter. I usually freeze them for a couple weeks and then remove them from the freezer. Thank you for watching my videos. Subscribe if you haven't already. OAG
This gets a like just for telling me that I have to FREEZE the peas before I store them. I will freeze them until I need them. Unless that’s a no go 🙅🏾
