EARLY JUNE SWEET PEAS &
HENDERSON BABY BUSH LIMA BEANS
Peas and baby limas are a
main crop grown in eastern Sussex county, around Milton,
Lewes, Milford and
Ellendale. The product is contracted to local canneries.
Many farmers double crop
peas and limas, planting the beans after harvesting the early peas
which is finished before the
4th of July. It has been found that later planted
Henderson Bush Baby
Lima's produce a better
yield that those planted early.
Milton is in the heart of
the Delaware lima bean production, one cannery cans 3600 cases
a day from the thirty to
fourty tons brought to them from the fields. Lima bean season begins
the
middle of August. The vines
of the crops are either 'threshed' or shelled when brought to the
'viners' at
the canning factory, or at
the farm which have viners of their own. The beans or peas after
being
shelled are cleaned by fans
forcing air over them, sorted by hand as they pass on belts, graded
for
color amd size, washed,
then canned and seaaled and cooked in steam retorts.
Most canneries start the
season just about Decoration Day, through early June with peas, in
July they are caning string
beans and August is tomatos with limas in September up until a good
heavy
frost or early freeze.
Source: Wilmington New
Journal , Saturday, October 10, 1925
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