Black Eyed Peas - Mavuno (4" Pot)

We received this variety from Cody Cove Farm in Lake Wales, FL and this is what they have to say about it.

"Mavuno cowpea is a remarkable cover crop variety of cowpea! Over the years we have experimented with many dozens of legume varieties and this is by far the most impressive variety we know of for intercropping with young trees and other perennial crops. It is the only variety of cowpea we are aware of that has the vigor and rampancy of cover crop types but sprawls as a mat, with no desire to climb adjacent plants. The growth habit is analogous to sweet potato, a sprawling vine that grows right up to young trees without climbing them. The occasional rare shoot “ramps” up into another plant but this is minimal and easily mitigated. It is extremely rampant with individual plants growing a mat 15 feet or more in diameter if left unpruned and seems totally resistant to nematodes. The stems are strangely thick, unlike other forms of cowpea. This variety has huge potential for restoring degraded soils around young plantings. It has high nitrogen fixing abilities, which we discovered by digging a hole nearby and finding ample N-fixing nodules covering the roots. This variety has grown aggressively (with some help and watering during establishment) on an area of our farm with poor, sandy soil that hardly supports native grasses. Going forward, planting Mavuno will be our primary strategy for keeping the ground covered, suppressing weeds and building fertility in our orchard plantings where soil is extremely poor."

We encourage people to support Cody Cove Farm because they are bringing much needed and incredibly important education regarding sustainable food production in Florida. They have a wealth of knowledge to share with us all. Any plants or seeds from them are sure to flourish in your garden. We have found their Patreon to be astonishingly helpful as well! find out more at codycovefarm.com or patreon.com/codycovefarm. 

Grown Organically from seed in our nursery.

4" pot

Full Sun 

Plant March-August