2025 GTS Grow Reports - Cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata)

How are they growing?

Lovely seed, your sending some in for GTS?!?!? LOVE, JUST love the colors you have, great diversity in your patch. Nice grow outs.

Absolutely! As the summer has worn on, the bush type plants died out and now I have a ton left of definitely not “bush” cowpeas. My bed for them was a long 25sqft raised bed, no trellis, and they’ve basically tried to take over the world after escaping it. I’ve got vines everywhere! Lesson learned for next year, I suppose, but with the productivity of such a small patch, worth it.

A disaster. The area where I planted them is still green, but the cowpeas are very unhappy. However, extra cowpeas were planted next to new poplar and willow cuttings. They are doing well, and I will have, I think, enough to save for next year to try again. (In an area where they will have regular irrigation!)

Eleanor