Cowpea "Bisbee Red"

Rampant, heat loving, drought tolerant grower. The sort of wonderful “rampant” Geoff Lawton talks about using to suppress weed growth in your main crop gardens. I grew 8 plants around corn, and they pulled some of the corn down! (Not harmed, though.)

Highly productive - great for a staple food crop. Those eight cowpea plants produced more than one quart of seed. The green pods were tasty, as were the leaves. Produces a lot of biomass for compost or mulching. A true multipurpose variety.

Grown in the hot high desert SW, zone 8a, in very sandy clay using permaculture and organic, low-nitrogen methods.