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north central Oklahoma | Eddie.
Soil-Life may be correct about planting date, but it's more than that. Cowpeas are indeterminate, most varieties will keep setting new pods with mature pods hanging, but little will pop like soys. Eventually they might, but not bad at all. I planted in mid July and I have what looks like a 15 to 20 bushel crop of Red Rippers.
Have always been told by those who profess to know, just pick your crop, kill the plant and harvest. This is recommended because they will keep setting new pods. I was just about to burn mine down, when Mother Nature saved me the chem cost the other night. In baout two weeks, I'll harvest them
One other thing. You can harvest them with green plants, but it is a real gooey mess. Better have a buyer who will take them off your hands in short order and don't leave them on the combine overnight, you will be shoveling them out the next day. Plants are very high in sugar and it gets all over the peas running through the machine. | |
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Cowpeas for seed
