Elliott Family Farm

As we feared might happen, hot weather killed the English Pea Crop. I always take crop failures bady. This one is no exception. They do happen, quite often on the farm and one simply has to keep going. The container garden is still doing nicely.

We are replacing the old crop with Southern Peas. The variety is Top Pick Pinkeye, a selection ot of Early Scarlet released by the University of Arkansas Southern Pea Improvement Program. It is a very good purple hull pea with a reddish to light purple hull and a tan colored seed. Very tasty. We will grow these as long as we can through out the summer. The hybrid sweet corn we have used for the last few years has had a second failure for us as well, which accellerates our plans to swap to Evergreen, a tight shucked, long milk stage dent corn that is an heirloom. We intend to use heirlooms wherever possible in the future.

So, with our big crop gone, we will not be at DFM this month. We have alwys relied on the southern pea crop anyway because that is what we are really about, Southern Peas.