I sell them in the pods. I don't think anyone could afford to buy them if they had to pay me to shell them.

In my post I state that "grow them, harvest and shell them", I wasn't going to shell them for market, but to sell enough for someone to shell at home for a decent portion, I meant are they worth it? What do you charge for shelling peas?

I fill a quart box with them and charge $2.50. After shelling, the customer gets about a cup of peas. A vendor in my market stopped growing them because he said they didn't sell at a previous market he was going to. Mine have been selling, but the most I have brought at a time were five quarts, so I'm not exactly pushing the market. They are just the overflow from our personal use. I'm thinking about trying another row next year too, strictly for selling. Are they worth it? I think so. It takes just minutes to plant a double row, and it doesn't take long to pick them.

As the old hands in the forum tell us, you don't know what sells from market to market until you try.

ThinMan

I get $3/lb. If you find they aren't earning their space you can turn them under for green manure.

In the spring I did a small patch for personal use, and put some out for customers to try, fresh out of the pod, telling them I would have a big crop in the fall. Everyone loved them. Your prices are about what I was thinking of charging. So in goes the big crop. Thanks to both of you.

i grow purple hulls and zipper peas and get 1.50 a pound or shelled for 4.00 a pound and they sell quick a lot of ppl buy up them 4.00 pounds

The last ones that I sold, I sold at $4/lb unshelled. I tried selling the shelled ones at $8/lb, but people weren't interested. They got the same amount of edible peas, but it didn't work for me. Be sure to get a 'sweet' tasting pea. I like Green Arrow for me.