Pigeon Peas-a prolific and versatile food crop!! and like Moringa, will be vital in the near future!

Pigeon peas are an easy way to add to your food security. Pigeon peas are a staple food that provide good protein. Not only are they delicious, they are prolific and easy to grow. Although it is a subtropical plant, it can be grown as an annual in colder climates. It proudces pods with edible peas in eight months and grows 12 ft within a year.

But there's more. This is a nitrogen fixing plant. It improves the soil. It can be used as a cover crop or planted near fruit trees . The branches are used for mulch or can be fed to livestock. Chickens can eat the green peas. (Or cooked peas of course) .

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I hope everyone will take a close look at this amazing plant.

i want to have one too... in brazil they make a delitious wine with this fruit!

used to eat them suckers,had to soak em overnight first cos they was rock hard(use them for pea shooters),they was like mushy peas,used to have them in the boozer with bacon in em.also used to call em grey peas.

Everyone says it's worth the long wait for the tree to fruit. I wish I had planted this 2 years ago when I first saw one. Oh well, soon.

I am guessing deer like eating the peas?

what is guanabanas?

what is guanabanas?

That's the only name I know ..I need to check.....

The form is different but it looks and change like the Acerola tree.

no, acerola is another one, this is pitanga or suriname cherry

Do you know jaboticaba? I want one.


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Valery, i don't belive, the pigeon peas you sed me just start to sprout in the pots!!!!

Have fun watching them grow!

it was sooo fast!!! I never imagine that!