Common names: Southern peas, cow peas, field peas, black-eyes and crowders. Latin name: Vigna unguiculata. Varieties: California Black-eye No.5 (resistant to root-knot nematodes), Pinkeye Purplehull, ...

A farmer might call them cowpeas. A grocer might call them black-eyed peas. A restaurant waitress might call them field peas. But they are all talking about the same vegetable — the southern pea. If ...

At this time of year, many of the vegetables we planted back in spring (March/April) are looking about as weary as we feel out in the heat and humidity. Production has just about finished now, and age ...

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BLACK-EYED PEAS: Their distinctive dark black eye gives them their name. CREAM PEAS: They produce delicious seeds that are light green or white and do not turn dark when cooked. Southern peas are ...

Butter beans, lady cream peas, zipper peas, crowder peas: many Southerners have distinct memories of these local staples during summertime suppers. That’s because these varieties grow with reckless ...

When you say “pea” to most gardeners in the world, they think of green “English” that thrive in cool moist environments. But to most Texans, a hot weather legume from Africa, more related to beans, is ...

We're eating lettuce, mustard, onions and broccoli out of our home garden now. That's all well and fine, but I'll consider this spring's gardening truly successful if two months from now I'm sitting ...

When most people think of peas, they typically conjure up the image of the round, grass-green peas that rolled around on their childhood plates, occasionally mixed in with other vegetables such as ...