The Wonderful Cowpea - Beneficial Crop and Tasty Too! || Black Gumbo
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Here is a wonderful and easy to grow pea that you can enjoy almost anywhere. Great and prolific crops of good food!
Learn about the wonderful cowpea and why you should grow it in your garden every year. It is an exceptional hot-weather crop, ideal for poor soil, and doesn't require a lot of care. Plus, they are delicious and versatile.
This legume is also an excellent soil amender and nitrogen fixer. It literally improves the soil where it is grown. Use it as a green manure, cop and drop crop, or till it in to the soil and compost in place. There is nothing negative about the cowpea. Try them, you can't go wrong!
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I freeze and purée with frozen blueberries and cream for a delicious ice cream like dessert that doesn’t melt.
Cowpeas and Okra, what a combination.
Thanks for all the info ! Very helpful !
thank you for the great information. we are gonna start growing these in our garden this year. greetings from Lake City, Arkansas.
Found a few randos in my yard out of nowhere in #backcountry San Diego. No clue where they came from, but now I want more! Thanks for the video 🙏
I am SO SO glad I saw one of your cowpea recipes a few months ago. It's 100 here with very high humidity and my cowpeas are ready for a really excellent harvest. I'm going to plant another round.
Perfect - thank you!
I've got a pretty big yard and I'm battling weeds plus I'm not crazy about planting grass that has to be watered and mowed for nothing. I'm thinking about becoming Johnny Cowpea for at least this summer. If it works out well I'll make it a thing. Interesting crop. Thanks for sharing this.
Hows it working out Johnny cowpea?
I may have to try blackeyed peas for my veggie burger recipe next time...I bet they would taste really good! :)
Ahhhh THAT’S what I didn’t do is thin them out. The Red Rippers are all tangled up with each other. They are flowering sparsely and I’m wondering if that is because there are too many of them in one area.
Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed the level of detail in the video.
Great job! This will be my first time growing cowpeas. I am excited 😊
I am just starting my vegetable garden at our new house here in Thailand, and planting LOTS of cowpeas to improve the soil (along with sunn hemp, sunflowers, daikon radish) and suppress the weeds. It will go from cool season (cannot really call it winter!) to hot in a few weeks so I hope it is as heat tolerant as you say. Never tried eating them before but will have plenty to taste !
Thanks!
Thanks so very much. I appreciate it!
No problem! Very helpful stuff for me 🤠🙏
Thank you! You have mentioned cow peas before and I never heard of them. Never grown peas, just bush beans. I’ll have to find some.
Cowpeas are awesome! If you have heard of black eyed peas, they are cowpeas. There are so many more varieties to choose from. I love them all. Check out my video on cowpeas:
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Willhite seed company out of Texas has a good selection
Thanks
Love the video! Great info to know! I'm originally from Mississippi, now living in WI for the last 20 years, and where I am is not a place that cater much to southern style cooking, in regards ingredients and seasonings for flavoring food with!!!
I've been looking for purple hull peas FOREVER here, and I've only found them a few times in the frozen food section at the grocery store, and that is VERY disappointing to the southern taste buds🤣!
This year, 2020, I decided to have a garden, not that I know anything about that either, but, I need to learn how to garden for self sustainability purposes.
Looking for seeds, I KNEW for sure that I wanted beans and peas in my garden, so as I'm looking for bean seeds, I thought surely I could find speckled butter beans, Crowder peas, field peas, and purple hull peas right???? WRONG!
La Crosse WI doesn't cater to SOUTHERN STYLE COOKING! and what they do have, is EXTREMELY VERY LIMITED!
So me and my son where buying starter plant and looking for seeds to plant for summer, and low and behold I spotted them! Purple hull peas!!!!! I saw the picture on the package first before I saw the name! It was the only pack left, so I hurried up and grabbed it bcuz I wanted it just that bad!
I grabbed it and most of the peas fell out on the floor🤨😮🤯!!!! The packet had already been opened prior to me grabbing it hurriedly! I couldn't believe that that had just happened!!!! So I look on the pack to see the name again, so I could possibly find them somewhere else, and I read "COWPEAS"!!!?? Mind u, I'd never seen a packet of them b4 in my entire life, so I'm thinking, 🤨 COWPEAS❓❓❓❓ WT...H! Been eating them all my life and NEVER knew that that's what they were called! Go figure!
LONG STORY SHORT, it dawned on me that there was a place called ONLINE SHOPPING, where I could've had as many as I wanted from "there" ALREADY. "There meaning online shopping", While I'm there, about to have a cow bcuz there was only one pack left!!😜🤣🤣 That's just how badly I wanted those peas.
So U might be wondering, "What is the big deal" about the peas huh?😊
If u ever come to La Crosse WI and u happen to be in search of some southern comforts, and u ACTUALLY find it? U better grab all u can, while u can bcuz it won't be there long, and the chances of ever coming across it here again are few and far between!!!
PLZZZZZZ hear and take need, If you're from ANYWHERE in the deep South, and you love southern flavor, u will not get it here UNLESS you bring it with u, or u know somebody here who ALREADY has it in their possession! I was devastated for years when I first moved here from Mississippi and discovered this! Culture shock doesn't even scratch the surface to explaining how I felt about that discovery, and for a Long time too! I still have a hard time with that aspect of living here.
If you've never experienced this depravation, then you'll never understand how shocking this is to a lover of southern style eats and flavorings!
I am a southern cook, who came to a place where even the KFC here, along with various commercial restaurants in general, tastes ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANY KFC/or whatever commercial restaurant chain IN THE DEEP SOUTH!!! TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU THIS!
And not only that, but ppl here can't cook like cooking supposed to be done from a SOUTHERN perspective, in none of the commercial restaurants here! And that's a shame.... U will never get a true picture/understand of this unless u experience it 1st hand bcuz it's one of those things that u just have to be here and see it for yourself to believe it 😁. It is THAT unreal, trust me!
Stay Blessed and stay safe y'all 😁
LOL, long story, fuun read. Thanks!
I buy black syed peas dry at Heb for 1.20 a pound but I feel your pain. I am from just outside San Antonio and I can't eat Mexican food anywhere further north than Waco because it's just not right.
Love reading your story. Totally understand. I am from Malaysia. The weather there is all year summer. Our tradition, we eat the whole cowpeas green...includes the seeds in it. When I was in Canada doing my study, i can't find this. I miss it everyday. After got married and moved to Dallas, I started my own garden this year and everything is blooming. ❤️ I bought cowpeas at Walmart for the first time. I was like what??? This call cowpeas??? I have been eating this since i was little but didn't know the name. Now i came across this UA-cam channel to find out how to grow this peas. 😇🙏
This looks like something I should try. How long to maturity? Thanks.
They vary wildly among varieties, but in my experience, its a good 80 days or more for some, others come earlier. I expect to start harvesting late August and through September, just in time to cut them all down and sow a fall/winter garden in their place.
Scott, love the video. Quick question, do I need to pick to keep them producing? I really want to dry them our for storage for winter months. Thanks
Yes, if you pick them they keep on producing for a while.
Do you reckon it is better to pull pods and see if a second group of pods, and a third, etc, grow? Or just pull the whole plant when harvesting the pod and grow another from seed?
Better to pick as you go and the plants will keep on producing so long as the weather permits.
Hi
I'm growing Ozarks for the first time. I have lots of peas but still not sure when to harvest? Should the pod be a certain color? Some are green some brown.
You can harvest when they are plump and get the fresh beans, or let them dry and they keep as dry beans virtually forever. Harvest these any time. You'll figure out the stage you like best.
It is very nice legumes. How or where can I get its seeds ericted variety???
When do you typically plant your cowpeas? I live in zone 9a in the burbs NW of Houston. I am going to grow cowpeas this summer, but was curious as to when is the best time to start them.
I like to put them out as a summer crop since they take the heat, so June or so, usually when my cucumbers give up or something dies from the heat. You could start them now though and grow them through the spring. Be aware they are aphid magnets, just be ready to hose them off periodically.
How do you dry them out? If you shell them can freeze them where I can have them for thanksgiving! Miss ya Scott really enjoy your videos
I let them dry on the vine or shell the semi-dry ones and let them air dry in the kitchen in a bowl (stir daily to avoid mold). You can freeze the plump fresh peas.
The video is so informative ! What sort of temperature range you would think of for cowpeas to germinate ? I put some cowpea seeds, after a bit soaking, into the soil. And so far, nothing came out. Might it be due to temperature, as it has been under 55 F degree......
I think they need some temps above 65F or so, that's the general consensus for fast germination. They will grow in cooler temps but just take a while.
Just planted red ripper peas this years and they are full of pods, and looking to see when is the best time to harvest. Came across this video , will see if you have more on this but can you eat a whole pod like you would a snap pea?
When they are very young you can but they are best when mature.
Yes. You can. In my tradition, we cook the whole pod. It taste really good. You first chop the whole pods in small pieces. Then put some oil in the pot, add some mince garlic and stir fry like Chinese style. Add some salt and black peppers. Covered the top, on medium heat and let it simmer for 10 min. Open and stir again. The texture should be medium soft, abit crunchy. Enjoy!
How do I fix these palapy cowpeas? They are the smaller gray ones . First time I grew these and I have no idea or recipe
Ooh that's the first variety I ever grew. Fix them like any other southern pea, blackeye, or purple hull. Look up recipes for purple hull peas and use the Palapy's instead.
@@ScottHead ok, I will look that up. Thank you for your kind reply :-)
What about the black cow peas
Not sure of your question but all cowpeas are awesome, so many varieties and they all do well in summer heat.
Have you seen some of the black peas
So what date to plant
Any time it will be hot for 3 months straight.
@@ScottHead also in s tx so that could be March till Nov right 🤣
Actually yes. but June/July means we should focus on heat loving crops. :-)
you have over 10 minutes of dead space on this video :)
Yeah just noticed that. Don't know why. Thanks for letting me know, new trimmed version is processing.
My husband’s niece married a man from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. They served a dish (among many others) at their wedding rehearsal dinner. I don’t eat much spicy food, but this spicy starchy dish I ate was so good, I kept getting more and drinking water after each bite. 😆 I learned later that it was made from cowpeas. My husband’s niece made some when we visited her and her husband.
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