This post is authored by Zerobear Polybear.
My parents grew huge gardens when I was a kid (many years back), The vegetables they grew pretty much every year included pink eyed purple hull peas, bunch and pole butter beans, Contender green beans, lady peas (my Dad’s #1 favorite vegetable), Texas cream peas (better yield than lady pea, but not as good), speckled butterbeans (for my mom), peanuts (for my dad), sweet corn, tomatoes, several different varieties of squash, cucumbers, okra, sweet potatoes (always) and red potatoes (sometimes), and surely some I have forgotten. These were grown on a neighbor’s otherwise unused land on what seemed like eternally long rows to a kid holding a weed chopping hoe.
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I remember many Summers spent shelling butterbeans and peas while watching General Hospital, All my Children and One Life to Live. Today I blanch my own Pinkeye purple hull peas, speckled butterbeans and a few white butterbeans. I freeze tomatoes and Okra for soup this Winter.
You watch your Mother and Grandmother do these things for many years and it comes natural to you.
The younger folks under 40 don’t do the Summer ritual with canning and freezing. They don’t know what blanching is. Hell I’m 58 and a lot of my own generation is too lazy to plan ahead and fill the freezer for the Winter months.
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