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Southern pea aka cream pea aka cowpea aka black-eyed pea are heat tolerant and can be eaten fresh or dried for future use. Dried and stored well, they can last for years for eating and planting. Because they can be grown when the temperature is high, in the 90s, disease resistant, easy to grow and store well, David recommends these to be part of your doomsday survival kit. This set consists of California Black Eye, Pinkeye Purple Hull, Texas Cream and Lady Finger. Harvest in about 60 days. Germination rate is about 70% or better. In rare cases there may be some substitutions of one or more seed varieties depending on availability. Our Non-GMO seeds are sustainable. Our packaging is environmentally friendly, climate friendly, reusable, and recyclable. Order today! David’s Garden Seeds is a Veteran owned business that has been offering quality seeds since 2009. David's Garden Seeds is a member of the GO TEXAN agriculture program. We cannot possibly put all the directions you need for growing southern peas in your area on the seed package. We recommend that you read articles or check with other gardeners in your area. This is an heirloom seed, meaning it has been passed down from generation to generation for at least 75 years. As a rule, heirloom seeds taste better and will grow the same year after year. These are also open pollinated meaning they will reproduce themselves. While all heirlooms are open pollinated not all open pollinated seeds are heirlooms. Freshly Packed: These southern pea seeds are packed for the current growing season and will provide high germination rates next year as well.
Harvest in about 65 days
Seeds are Non-GMO, easy to grow and hand packed by David's Garden Seeds in the United States of America
Great heirloom seed collection
These are open pollinated meaning they will reproduce themselves
Germination rate about 80% or better
This was my first go with cowpeas. I am now absolutely smitten with them as an edible crop, not just a legume cover, thanks to this variety pack! Most of them did have a blue inoculant coating which wasn't mentioned in the description.These had excellent germination for me even after a dry spring. I planted all four varieties to see what would perform best in my area (desert southwest). They all withstood my poor soil, drought conditions, weeks of triple digit temperatures, 50 mph winds, 3 rounds of quarter-sized hail, torrential downpours (monsoon season), high and low humidity, and some wild temperature swings. I lost a number of other crops during all of this and the cowpeas survived and produced despite inconsistent moisture and some leaf damage from the hail.The immature beans taste like snap peas (which we can't grow in the summer here) so a lot of them didn't make it out of the garden. We have also sauteed them like green beans in veggie mixes. We await the end of the season to harvest some dried and I've recently learned the leafy greens can be used as you would spinach, but we haven't tried this yet. I think these are a new favorite for my toddler.The Mississippi Silver variety did the best for me. Tack on the fact they're a legume and what's not to love?
