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(Vigna unguiculata)
Cowpeas are very easy to grow, colorful and tasty. Very popular in the Southern U.S., Africa and Asia. They are great picked young for use as green snap beans, and stir-fried or boiled. A favorite crop here at our farm. They also make a great cover crop, to choke weeds and put nitrogen in the soil. Plant like regular beans. 30-75 seeds per packet.
Black Crowder
70 days. Very long pods give huge yields of beautiful purple peas that turn black as they dry. Easy to shell, popular.

Item Code: CW104  
$1.75
Red Ripper
80 days. Large running vines yield 12"-14" pods that are loaded with peas! This heirloom has red seeds and great flavor fresh or dried.

Item Code: CW106  
$1.75
Gray-Speckled Palapye Cowpeas seeds Gray-Speckled Palapye
Flavorful, gray-speckled peas in large pods, very early and perfect for the North. From a market in Palapye, Botswana. Rare. 25 seeds.

Item Code: CW107  
$2.50
California Blackeye Pea
70 days. An old standard variety; vigorous, high-yielding vines. Thomas Jefferson grew Blackeye Peas in the 1770s. Cowpeas originate in Africa, are easy to grow, and are very popular in the south; a very ancient crop.

Item Code: CW108  
$1.50
Purple Hull Pinkeye Cowpeas seeds Purple Hull Pinkeye
70 days. The preferred variety of many Southerners; delicious flavor. Hulls are purple. An old favorite.

Item Code: CW109  
$1.50
Penny Rile Cowpeas seeds Penny Rile
80 days. Khaki-tan color, medium-sized peas, heavy yields. The peas are great for soup. Mr. Martin's family grew these vines to feed their livestock and as a food source for the family to help with long winters.

Item Code: CW116  
$2.50
Stick Up
80 days. Pods tend to "Stick Up" on the vines, hence the name. This heirloom was once popular in French Fork, Louisiana, and it helped the local people of the area get through the Great Depression. Small brown seed.

Item Code: CW129  
$2.50
Mississippi Silver Hull Cowpeas seeds Mississippi Silver Hull
A heavy-producing runner type that is very popular in the South. Very large tan beans, fairly early. Also produces in the North.

Item Code: CW131  
$2.00
Mayo Colima
Mixed-color peas, gray, gray-mottled or orange/tan-mottled. Seed from this variety was collected from the low desert of Los Capomos, Sinaloa, Mexico, from a Mayo village.

Item Code: CW134  
$2.50
Old Timer or Purple Hull Speckled
Short, bush plants produce colorful, purple, 7" pods that are filled with medium-sized, tan peas that have dark speckles. A fine variety that is good for small gardens.

Item Code: CW138  
$2.50
Bohemian
This heirloom was brought to America by immigrants from Prague in the early 1800s. Small vining bushes produce delicious small white peas from cream colored flowers.

Item Code: CW139  
$2.50
Lady Peas
The tiny and popular, but hard to find, white Lady Pea. They are superbly flavored and are very tender. The short plants are great for small gardens and yields are high.

Item Code: CW136  
$2.50
Blue Goose (Gray Crowder)
36" vines produce purple-gray peas with up to 20 in a pod! A rare old Southern heirloom (pre-1860). Great for table use.

Item Code: CW103  
$2.50
Rice Pea Cowpeas seeds Rice Pea
Tiny white seeds are just larger than rice and cook in 40 minutes. Very tasty. Bush plants yield well. A pre-1860 Southern cowpea.

Item Code: CW112 Out of Stock
Green Eyed Pea
Very rare, Missouri heirloom is larger than the standard Blackeye pea. The peas are named for their "green-colored eye" on each seed. We have finally procured some seed for this great variety.

Item Code: CW143  
$2.50
Six Week Purple Hull     New!
An early Pink Eye, Purple Hull type, produces lots of tasty cream-colored seeds that have a "pink eye." Small plants and reddish-purple pods. Sent to us by a customer.

Item Code: CW145  
$2.50
Sugar Cream     New!
Delicious, cream colored peas are great dried or as snaps. Robust, yellow flowered vines produce heavy yields of this southern heirloom that has been grown for generations.

Item Code: CW146  
$2.50
Kentucky     New!
A favorite of Amish grower Mr. Brubaker of Rich Hill, Missouri. He received this heirloom from his grandfather of Scottsville, Kentucky. It produces extra long, green-purple pods that are filled with fat, red peas with brown speckles. Productive plants yield all season.

Item Code: CW144 Out of Stock
Haricot Rouge du Burkina-Faso
An heirloom from Burkina-Faso, West Africa. Colorful red-purple pods have deep red seeds. This pretty variety produces well even in extreme conditions.

Item Code: CW117  
$2.50
Jet Black
Long vines produce solid black peas. Excellent in rice dishes, this fine old variety pre-dates 1850 in the Southern US, but it was believed to have been rediscovered in South Africa.

Item Code: CW118  
$2.50
Myrtle's
An Appalachian heirloom from eastern Kentucky. Named for Myrtle Bates, who can remember her grandmother cooking these more than 60 years ago. Semi-compact, bush plants produce delicious, dark tan-colored peas.

Item Code: CW137  
$2.50
Carrapichio
Good yields of Khaki-colored peas and long pods. An attractive pea that is very rare and uniquely colored.

Item Code: CW130  
$2.50
Turkey Craw
Vining, old-fashioned variety that produces long, maroon and white peas.

Item Code: CW133  
$2.50