Beginner Gardening: Southern Cow Peas, 4 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
In general southern peas demand little. They were the fall back crop when all else failed. They will grow among corn, but not in todays dense planting. In the 40's and 50's when corn was planted with 42 inch spacing and low fertilization, peas were commonly planted in the cornfields. But in nitrogen rich soil, they will produce more vine than peas. Here Texas cream peas ( both 40 and 8) do not yield comparitive to pinkeyes, crowders, blackeyes etc. Cowpea varieties have wide variation in size and flavor, I use them mostly as green shellies, but are also suitable dried. They freeze well.