Pigeon Pea - 1 oz - Heirloom, Open-Pollinated, non-Hybrid Victory Seeds®

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Pidgeon Pea

Pigeon Pea

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Pigeon Peas (Cajanus indicus)
140 days — Although not common in the United States, pigeon peas are an important crop in many parts of the world. It has been cultivated at least 3,000 years and is believed to have originated in India, spread to East Africa, and then to the Americas via the early slave trade.

Pigeon peas are a vigorous, productive, drought-tolerant legume. They have a pungent, sweet flavor and mealy texture and are used in dishes combined with beans and rice and are often seasoned with hot chilies. The slow cooking nature of these beans allows for a rich, savory broth to be created.

Culture: They are cultivated like Southern peas and soybeans. Sow seeds ¾ to 1 inch deep, three to four inches apart on raised beds with forty inches between beds. Plant late in the spring after soil temperatures have warmed. It is a long season crop requiring approximately 140 days from seeding to the beginning of harvest. In most parts of the United States where freezing temperatures are possible, they must be grown as an annual. Each packet contains one ounce, which is approximately 160 seeds.