#southernpea

[seedkeeping]

Whippoorwill Southern Pea now available at trueloveseeds.com! This pea is creamy and delicious! This variety is super prolific, even in Truelove Seeds grower Chelsea Askew's sandy soils of Virginia. Chelsea eats these peas with greens and cornbread on New Years Day and loves their flavor and texture. This smaller-seeded variety is vining and will climb your corn, but won't pull it down. In a report published in 1912 by the United States Department of Agriculture, Whippoorwill (also known as "Shinney Pea") was in the top 5 most popular and most widely grown southern peas in the United States. Thomas Jefferson grew Whippoorwill at Monticello. Since the 1990s, Whipporwill has seen a revival, and was nominated by the Slow Food Ark of Taste Committee for the US South as an endangered and culturally important variety. Of course, this species was brought from West Africa, which is its center of genetic diversity, likely where it was first domesticated, and where it is still most widely grown. Thanks to @chelskew for your dedication to preserving southern and Appalachian crops, for these seeds, and for the last two photos! #whippoorwill #whippoorwillsouthernpeas #whippoorwillcowpea #vignaunguiculata #cowpea #southernpea #arkoftaste #slowfoodarkoftaste https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGocuLlzLa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5m1p2kkl564f

[hisj]

_Vigna unguiculata_ #cowpea #southernpea #ササゲ _Everes argiades_ #shorttailed_blue #butterfly #ツバメシジミ (天然温泉 湯の道 利久)

[23percentchallenge]

Plant 🌱 Food of the Week Featuring Black-eyed Peas #legumes #blackeyedpeas #peas #cowpeas #southernpeas #goodluck #coins #papermoney #forksoverknives #natureday #23percentchallenge #eatmoreplants https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FBkSEJCt2/?igshid=1k5sol83bp2i5

[megadiversepiedmont]

Southern peas, known variously as cowpeas or field peas. Vigna unguiculata. This variety is called “whippoorwill.” The seed was brought to the Americas during the times of the slave trade; it was cultivated by Thomas Jefferson.

When ordering the seed, I failed to note that this drought-tolerant legume grows 5-foot vines - it is taking over the footpath! Luckily, this is a test plot, so not too big. I hope to measure how much they produce.