Today I’ve been shelling the first drying peas.
It’s an old variety for heavy clay soils, Lollandske Rosiner. Hundred years ago it was a
staple food for the working class. It is a field pea, to be sown in very early spring.
It is boiled in soups, where it after two hours of boiling look like a raisin, and very nutricious.
I grow it, because it must survive to the day a multimedia gourmet taste it and make it famous around the world. Since it is very early, it’s also nice to eat fresh.
I have a dream of growing it intermingled with oath, as I remember this kind of fields from my childhood.
Because Lollandske Rosiner is so early, it didn’t get affected by the larvae of pea moth.
August 10, 2007 at 09:57
Lollandse Rosiner sounds like an excellent crop for any self-sufficiency setup. Would it work to grind it up for Pea Flour, too? I imagine so…
I’m also quite curious about the Tomatoes lying on the tables beside the Peas
(But I’ve already committed myself to too many Tomato varieties for the coming Summer! 
August 15, 2007 at 13:48
I really enjoy the capucijner peas I grow, our local field pea. These sound wonderful. I hope I have the space next year to try them.
I also have a similar pea from Latvia, and hope to try that as well.
August 22, 2007 at 20:50
Hi Mike.
The tomatoes are:
“Fleischtomate, kartoffelblättrige Tiefgefurchte” (big red in front), ‘Black Prince’ (the black tomatoes), the last two I don’t remember anymore, but could be ‘Schnellreifende aus Wirowsk’.
July 11, 2008 at 00:13
I’m growing Suger Snap Peas. Can I dry them and process them for Split Pea Soup later in the year.
July 12, 2008 at 23:09
Hi Chuck.
Sure you can, but Sugar Snap is a wrinkle seeded pea, high in sugar and low in starch. Normally split peas are low in sugar and rich in starch. You will get a different taste, and maybe to you likings?
July 12, 2009 at 06:26
Please tell me how to dry purple hull peas. Am out of freezer space. Have so many peas to preserve. Need to dry them and have never done this…Any one out there to help me with this?
July 15, 2009 at 10:07
Nena: There are two different ways of eating these kinds of peas, fresh or dried. These are both harvested in different ways and at different times, and it’s not possible to change one type into the other.
If you want fresh peas you have to harvest them before the peas dry out. If you want dry peas, you need to leave them on the plant until they get dry.