# No till, little work Purple Hull peas. I'm giving this a try. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-till-little-work-purple-hull-peas-im-giving-this-a-try/652019 "2013-03-04T18:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-till-little-work-purple-hull-peas-im-giving-this-a-try/652019/1 "2013-03-04T18:02:59Z")
This is just too easy not to try. 😛 If you live in gardening Zones 8 or 9. No gardening bed needed. No tilling, no hoeing, just some watering. Wow! Gosh I love a pot of fresh shelled purple hull peas and ham. Read through this. Could it be any easier? The photos show that he gets good results. [http://www.cookinglouisiana.com/Articles/Peas\_no-till.htm](http://www.cookinglouisiana.com/Articles/Peas_no-till.htm) > [@](#): > > Get yourself 4 stakes, some string, pea seeds and fertilizer. Leave the shovel in the shed. Pass your lawnmower over the section you want to plant. Use the stakes and string to mark off your row. The reason it’s marked off is so you don’t run over it by mistake with the mower. Sprinkle the peas and a little fertilizer in the row (1 lb of peas per 30’ row). Walk on the peas to make them fall below the grass towards the soil. Water well, then water every day late in the evening (unless it rains). You’ve got to keep the ground moist so they can take root. > > After about five days you can pull one of the end stakes up and pass your lawn mower over the row (the peas won’t be coming up yet). Try not to walk over the row. Place the stake back in place. This is the last time for the lawn mower. In about 10 to 14 days you’ll be surprised! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-till-little-work-purple-hull-peas-im-giving-this-a-try/652019/2 "2013-03-04T19:02:02Z")
Blackeyed peas and purple hulled peas are just about the most easy and foolproof things to grow in zones 8 and 9, save okra, which is absurdly prolific, Just keep your pea plants watered, and you should be ok. If you want to do something to make sure they do well, get some [inoculant](http://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/garden-growers/burpee-booster-prod001207.html) to make sure they have enough of the right kinds of bacteria for their nitrogen fixing root nodules. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-till-little-work-purple-hull-peas-im-giving-this-a-try/652019/3 "2013-03-04T19:41:58Z")
I’ll order that inoculant from Burpee. Thanks! I’m 200 miles North of Louisiana. Will need to plant earlier than the guy in Louisiana. I’ll check around and see when Arkansas folks plant purple hulls. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-till-little-work-purple-hull-peas-im-giving-this-a-try/652019/4 "2013-03-04T21:27:34Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ll order that inoculant from Burpee. Thanks! > > I’m 200 miles North of Louisiana. Will need to plant earlier than the guy in Louisiana. I’ll check around and see when Arkansas folks plant purple hulls. Here in N. Texas (still mostly S. of Arkansas), I could probably plant right now, and they’d sprout just fine, but like squash, don’t really get rolling until it warms up some.