For shellies, wait until they are fully purple. Otherwise the peas will be undersized.

Less mature pods can be used as snaps. Sometimes snaps and shellies are picked and cooked together.

Jim

Removing duplicate post.

This post was edited by jimster on Tue, Jul 29, 14 at 16:29

The following link takes you to a video where the webcajun shows the five stages of the pink eye purple hull peas. He has quite a few videos on growing, harvesting and canning them. I pick my peas beginning at the "Racing Stripe" stage and continuing until just turning all the way purple but still soft.

This post was edited by yolos on Tue, Jul 29, 14 at 21:10

Well heck, what happened to my link. here it is.

Here is a link that might be useful: When to Harvest PEPH peas