Pinkeye Purplehull Cowpea

Cowpea with a reddish purple bean pod making them much easier to spot and harvest. Inside the look like a black eye pea with a creamy white bean and pink/black dot. This is more compact than some of the other cowpeas and has good disease resistance. Very reliable and great yields. Cowpeas are an easy to grow summer cover crop and need no attention outside of harvesting the dry beans over summer once established. I have found that they will inevitably end up carpeted in aphids but the plant does NOT need your help. They will not succumb to them and it just serves to attract beneficial insects to your garden so they already call it home by the time you plant your fall garden. They are nitrogen fixers as well but once you start harvesting beans that's where all the nitrogen goes so if that is your goal it is best to plant Iron Clay Cowpea which has delayed fruit set and is used in my summer cover crop blend for that reason.

Packet: ~60 seeds

Good to start from seed in these months:

North Florida: June-July 

Central Florida: March-August 

South Florida: April-August