[AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops

[Ralph Goff]

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From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:01 AM
Subject: [AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops


> The pea trucks would often be overloaded enough to allow some bunches of 
> pea
> vines to drop off along the roads on the way to the vinery.  As kids, we
> would spend considerable time picking the dropped vines and filling the
> front baskets of our bikes.  What a great treat it was to sit in the shade 
> ,
> pick the pods from the vines and eat the fresh peas as we shelled them. 
> If
> we could get a large enough collection, we took them home and shelled them
> for Mom to cook for dinner.  In my opinion at the time, cooking spoiled 
> the
> peas, so most were eaten under the shade tree.
>
> Charlie V. in WNY

Charlie, when they harvest the peas here, ususally in August, they are hard 
as stones and not the kind of thing you'd want to be chewing on. In fact 
they tend to wear the moving parts of the combines more so than ordinary 
cereal grains. They have to be dry for threshing and storage.

Ralph in Sask.