Pinkeye Purplehull Cowpea

Name: Pinkeye Purplehull Cowpea
Brand: TheUrbanHarvest
SKU: 26 - SESE
Price: 4.25 USD
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Pinkeye Purplehull Cowpea

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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

Open Pollinated Heirloom Seeds Selected To Thrive

This is a curated collection of seeds I have found to grow well in Florida over the years. It is designed to take the overwhelm and thought process out of figuring out which varieties to select that will actually grow well here.

Some of the seed is saved from myself and other small local growers for harder to source varieties that you can't find online.

The majority of the seed varieties will come from dedicated seed supply companies like Working Food or Southern Exposure Seed Exchange to keep up with demand. We always prioritize localized seed sources which have a sustainable and equitable business model.