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Planting blackeye peas. This plant is entirely
different from the garden pea and its seeds are widely used as dry beans.
It loves the heat, is grown extensively in the South, and a dish of blackeye
peas is required food on New Year's Day for many Southerners, who eat
them for luck.
Pods also may be used in the manner of snap
beans, usually mixed with shelled seeds. The seeds are planted 1 1/2 inches
deep at intervals of 3 inches in rows 28 inches apart. Harvest when the
seeds are well developed and shell out easily, but before the pods start
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