Vigna, Asparagus Bean, Cow Pea, Cowpea, Southern Pea, Yard Long Bean 'Black Crowder'

I am very pleased with this crowder pea. I have grown it every year for the past five years and save my seed each year. They produce ve...Read Morery well and they are excellent for eating. This variety will not be sold in stores around here. Luckily, a friend of my grandmother gave her some seed five years ago. They are my wife's favorite crowder pea.

This cultivar grows as a large bushy plant with the peas set at the top. Pods are medium large, well filled with shiny black peas of good...Read More flavor. As my neighbors like to say, "You growing any of those peas that make their own gravy?" Even at the green shell stage they tend to make a black soup although the peas hold their shape. It is more bush than a climbing pea.