You scared me😲🤣. You started out saying folks this is going to be my last video. Oh my goodness!! I love love love learning from you! 😊

Today I am a grandmother and I still remember that my grandmother had no freezers but to store beans and not grow the larvae she would put pepper and bay leaves along with the beans and I don't remember seeing larvae in the beans she kept. When I buy beans from the farm and not from the stores, I still do the same and I can have the beans on the shelf, in jars for 3 or 4 years, I've never had problems and, to use them I wash the beans that are always perfect. What is admirable is how in the old days, people could find processes to solve problems, nowadays people want other people to solve their problems. Although not yet many, fortunately some young people are beginning to realize the importance of old knowledge.

You can also dry can the peas to kill the Weevils. I pack then into pint jars, set them in a pan put into a 180 to 200 degree oven for 60 mins. I put the lids in a pan and place them into the oven for the last 15 mins. When they come out i put the lids on them and set aside. They will seal 😀Thanks Old Alabama hardener for sharing your knowledge.

Mrs OAG TY SO MUCH FOR KEEPING YOUR HUSBANDS VIDEOS UP . GOD BLESS YOU….

Thanks for the information! I just discovered this pest the hard way and will use this method next year. RIP OAG

Thank you. First time backyard “farmer” this year. I appreciate your knowledge.

Thank you OAG! I look forward to your next video when it's time to make another one. Have a restful fall and winter until the work begins again! Thank you for being here for us.

Very informative ! I will be growing black eyed peas next year for the first time .. learning all I can . So glad to come across this video !

Great information and looking forward to your next video. Hope you have a wonderful week .

Great advices as usual. Always outstanding. Highly appreciate all of your great efforts. Glad to see you are doing well. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for producing your videos. They really help aspiring gardeners.

I have loved your videos this season! Thank you very much!!

Thank you! Great information, my friend!

Great tips Charles, Hope all is going well!!

Fantastic series Charles! Thanks for sharing with us. 😊🌱💚

Love your videos...thank you for taking the time to teach.

good information thank you

You remind me of a dear family friend who taught me to love gardening when I was young. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Truthful information.

If you feel like making another video this winter I'm betting it would be amazing to see your pantry. Thank you for a, of your videos they are informative and I enjoy watching your eyes sparkle

Thank you sir for your knowledge. May you have a blessed winter.

Really glad you clarified "my last video". When I buy flour and corn meal I always put them in my freezer for a couple of weeks and sometimes even longer. That started after I went to get some flour from my canister and found it full of bugs/weevils. Since then I never put flour in a canister but instead keep it in my fridge. ewww Thanks for the black eyed peas infor Sir. Love your channel. 😊 😊

You never fail us.. Such a great mentor and teacher... Thanks so much for sharing your valuable time w/ us..

Thank you for your knowledge!!!

Just want to you to know you are loved and appreciated! Thank you for all your videos and helpful information over the years and to your wonderful wife who lets you share 😅

Gees I thought you were not going to make any more videos started my sad face, but yahoo your going to make more. Thank you.😄 for sharing good information.

Your videos are always great. I learn a lot

Thanks for sharing all this great information God Bless

Super! Thank you David

have a great fall and winter , thank you so much for your vids., very helpful.

Hey my Friend Charles I will be growing blackeye peas this year. I love your videos.

I enjoy your videos. This is good logic.

Good video and educational. Thank you

Ty OAG

what a great tip about weevils!

I love & miss this man!💔

Wow, you explain so well. You are gifted. I enjoyed watching this video and learnt a lot from you. Thank you Sir.

Thanks old peoples like an open book full of knowledge

Thanks for your wisdom!

Hi Charles how are you? Glad to see such a bountiful harvest 🤗

Your videos make my day😁

Thanks so much for your videos. 👍

Thank you for this presentation. I admire your thorough guidelines and thoughtfulness. I subscribed when you were working with Dr . Ford Brewer on his channel. You have set a fine example for me to follow, sir.

I thank God I found your info on Google. Was ready to cook my black eyed peas and the store bought bag was crawling with weevils

Good advise on killing the pests .

I'm always telling everyone who asks me how my garden is so beautiful it's all because of OAG. I wish you could see pics. You'd be proud.

You should turn on some commercials for your KZfaq channel to make money for yourself. I’ll watch 🤓some commercials for you 😉

Do more videos on how you use what you store. Thank you

I live in Monrovia, Madison County, AL and have been growing field peas as a second crop after spring harvest for seven years and haven't found any weevil damage to my peas and I don't poison them at all. After shelling and before cooking, my wife looks through the peas for signs of weevils and she hasn't found any either. I grew up on Sand Mountain and we had weevils in beans, corn, peas, peaches, apples and cotton.

GOOD VIDEO!!!!!

Great video. Have you kept information about how many peas you planted and how many were harvested (buckets picked, pounds shelled, etc.)? I really enjoy your channel.

Gaaaaaaah!!! At first I thought the tiny little black weevils in my kitchen were cute, but they just wouldn't stop... In my spaghetti, my rice and the motherload 😲 in my mixed beans and grains for soup, which I just put to the freezer... Been washing them down the drain all week 😬... First time I've seen them. My beans are store bought but I'm going to be sorting and freezing from now on. Thank you kindly for sharing ❤️

Thank you.

Last video??!! Well thank you for such and informative season! Take care O.A.G! God bless you 🙏❣️ 😇 Take care friend! Make those black eyed peas on New Year's! Lol

Great video... good info ♥️ Anna

We have started vacuum sealing all of our dried goods in jars or vacuum bags in buckets.

OAG is awesome!!! :D

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Enjoyed the video, one question. Would vacuum sealing the bags help any with the weevil/egg problem? Plan on growing some next summer.

You can freeze the seeds inorder to kill the weevils

Black eyed peas are worth all the effort! So delicious!

Have a nice healthy winter and holidays!

OAG, Do you eat the blackeye peas green? I like'em both ways. I usually freeze my seeds anyway. Didn't know about killing the weevil eggs thou. Thank you so much for the video.

...THANKS for sharing! ❤ In love, light, peace & unity, "gifted_spiritu_ally"!

Do you can them? I love watch your videos. I'm from nw Missouri.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with how you shell died black eyed peas. If, while still in your 5 gallon plastic bucket, you get a clean wood 2x4 and crush the peas, still in the shell, most of them will be shelled. That will save you a bunch of time however you will for sure have all of the "worm damaged" ones included. For me, when I add water to wash them prior to cooking, most - if not all, of the worm and weevil damaged peas will float to the top.

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So after freezing they can be dry stored?

I’m wondering if you could take the ones with worm bites and use them as planting seeds

That’s exactly what I do with all of our dried beans.

If you freeze the peas, can you still plant them for next season's crop? 💝☀🌵

After you freeze them for a week or more, then do they go on the dry pantry shelf until used? Is darkness important?

In storing my dried peas, beans etc. I rarely see weevil damage. I've seen videos where such beans are cooked in canning jars dry. The result are peas that will supposedly store for 30 years. Can't see the point myself.

What kind of worms are they?

Thanks for sharing. Do you know who sells organic blackeye peas? After you freeze them how do you store them? Thanks

Do I need to rethink putting dried beans and grains in the freezer for only one week? Is a month better?

Makes me want to try black eyed peas. Always enjoyed rattlesnake. I even accept worm damage on corn, just cut the tips of the ears off. Try to sell it to anyone they'll lose their minds. Worms won't eat modern corn ... neither will I.

Question after they've been frozen for 2 weeks or a month can they be taken out and re-dried and stored in bags for long term storage?

This gets a like just for telling me that I have to FREEZE the peas before I store them. I will freeze them until I need them. Unless that’s a no go 🙅🏾

I was wondering if the peas could be put in the oven to kill any eggs and then in a jar. I don't have any freezer space.

I promise my wife and I were just talking about you today as we picked a haul of black eyed peas today. Now once they've been in the freezer for a week or two can you leave them in the freezer? I've heard freezing without blanching can make them bitter.

Shelling field peas right now

Weevils are just extra protein! LOL Enjoy your videos! Keep it up!