I harvested our Black Eyed Peas and wanted to show you the process of putting them up.  This was my first year of doing Black Eyed Peas, so anyone with more experience, I'd love to hear comments and suggestions.

I did the "pole" variety and I'm going to assume there's bush varieties as well.  The bush varieties might be easier, if they work like green beans, you harvest them all at the same time and then they are done.  The pole black eyed peas have been up since late June and as the season went I picked the pea pods.  

I just tossed them in a metal basket that I have in the kitchen area:

Then I shelled them and put them in a pint Ball Canning Jar, Wide mouth.  I use the wide mouth because it works with the vacuum sealer (keep reading...)

Once the jar is full, I take it, and a regular wide mouth lid and vacuum seal it.  These are dry beans, so I think this is a valid method for storing dry beans.  This is NOT valid for any kind of liquid thing that you would store.  Please read up on canning techniques to ensure that you do the right thing to avoid botulism or other diseases or issues.  You need to do the right thing to protect yourself from harm.

So, I use the Food Saver vacuum sealer to vacuum seal the jar.  There is an attachment that is very handy, the Jar Sealer.  I only have the wide mouth version, but apparently they also sell the regular size one, so I'm going to have to add that to my shopping cart.

Once I sealed it up, it should be good to go and store for quite a while.

I wasn't extremely overwhelmed with the amount of black eyed peas I harvested.  I only filled the one pint jar, and these black eyed peas took up 10 feet of space in my trellised garden area.  I would have gotten much more production with tomatoes or maybe cucumbers.  Overall though, it was easy to grow the black eyed peas and was a great experiment.  I definitely want to try the bush style for next season and see how that goes.  It does appear the bush style seeds are available.

See my other Gardening and Homesteading Posts

I do the Mittleider Method, see my Mittleider Gardening Posts

• Mittleider Gardening
• Mittleider Book
• Deer Fence
• Mittleider Trellis System 
• Twine for the Trellis System
• Mittleider Watering System
• Benefits of the Raised Bed System
• In the Garden Greenhouse hoops

I also have tried the Square Foot Gardening Method

• Square Foot Gardening

Various Techniques and Equipment

• Pressure Canning Green Beans
• Hand Pollinating Squash/Zucchini
• Roma Tomato harvest and Water Bath Canning
• Potato Harvest and Pressure Canning Potatoes
• Harbor Freight 6x8 Greenhouse Construction

Harvesting Posts/General Updates

• Garden Update - 10/10/17
• Garden Harvest - 10/4/17
• Green Bean Harvest - 9/24/17
• Fall Garden Update - 9/23/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/23/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/20/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/18/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/17/17
• Garden Harvest and Food Donation - 6/15/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/16/17
• Garden Harvest - 6/7/17
• Tomato Progress - 5/31/17
• Garden Harvest - 5/30/17