Iron and Clay Cowpea 5 Lbs. Excellent for quail, dove ,Avg. 4,000 seeds/lb.

Daikon RadishCowpeas (Iron & Clay)Cowpea SeedA great cover crop for warm weather and Southern growers.Grown much like soybeans. Frost sensitive, but fast growing to 2 1/2' in warm/hot weather. Sow midspring once soil has warmed. Drill at 25-50 lb./acre or broadcast up to 120 lb./acre, 1/2 to 1 deep. Relatively long taproots help withstand drought. Cowpeas are not tolerant of high weed pressure or wet soils and will perform poorly in these conditions. If planted thickly, they will smother out weeds. Cowpeas can also be used for underseeding in spring crops and tilled under prior to fall-planted crops. They can produce as much as 315 lb./acre nitrogen, although 130 lb./acre is more typical. High organic matter production. Inoculate with for best performance. Avg. 4,000 seeds/lb.Plant to the rate of 60 lb. per acre - BroadcastRates of 20-30 lbs. / acre can be used on row planting.OR Plant 3-5 lb. per 1000 sq. ft.Cowpea is one of the most ancient crops known to man. Its origin and subsequent domestication is associated with pearl millet and sorghum in Africa. It is now a broadly adapted and highly variable crop, cultivated around the world primarily for seed, but also as a vegetable (for leafy greens, green pods, fresh shelled green peas, and shelled dried peas), a cover crop and for fodder. Cowpea has a number of common names, including crowder pea, black-eyed pea and southern pea.Origins , Africa where it's still cultivated to this day. It sustains the people who live on the very edge of existence and it thrives in hot, dry conditions.Brought across the Atlantic to the Caribbean Basin, it was introduced to the Americas during this dark portion of our history. There are records of its use in Jamaica as early as 1675. It has documented use in Florida in 1700 and North Carolina in 1714.Cowpeas were often known as a poor man's food the landed gentry of the Eastern seaboard preferred the English Pea,Exported By ExportYourStore