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Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull Pea

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The Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull Pea is a favorite in southern parts of the country. This variety grows in an upright habit that produces 6-7″ pods on top of the plants, making harvesting easy. Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull will grow well in late spring into early summer and can be planted again in fall. Vigna unguiculata L. 70 Days To Maturity.

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Be sure to check out our Cow Pea Growing Guide for more tips & tricks on successfully growing cow peas in your garden.

It is a BICMV virus resistant variety that yields as well as cornet as shown in the Southernpea Trials that Auburn University conducted in 1992-1993. Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull Pea pods start out bright green and turn to a deep purple color when mature. Each pod will contain up to 14 peas per pod. The peas are light green with a pink eye when fresh and mature to a creamy white color with a maroon eye when dried. Once mature and purple, pods are very easy to shell. Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull is a great variety for fresh-eating and preserving and has a wonderful creamy texture when slow-cooked. To preserve, blanch, dry, and vacuum-seal to have delicious field peas throughout the year.


We recommend planting Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull Pea using a walk-behind planter like our Hoss Garden Seeder. Use a #5 seed plate, but always check the hole size and modify if necessary. Because it has a semi-vining growing habit, allow 3-4′ of growing space for each row. Field peas, or “crowder peas”, do very well when planted on double rows. Plant two rows about 6″ apart, then skip over 3-4′ and plant another double row. This will allow you to maximize garden space and produce more vegetables per square foot of the garden. Peas should be harvested when pods are full and shelling is easy. If the pods do not shell easily, they likely need to stay on the plant longer.

Mississippi Pinkeye Purplehull Pea Planting Information

Planting Method: direct seed
When to Plant: after last frost
Planting Depth: 1″
Seed Spacing: 3-4″
Row Spacing: 3-4′
Days to Maturity: 70
Disease/Pest Resistance: Blackeye Cowpea Mosaic Virus

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Joyce Vinson
Excellent Tasting Peas

This was my second time growing these, and I absolutely love them! I am in Zone 10a so we have lots of heat and humidity which does not seem to phase these peas at all! The hotter the better!
I have only had to spray mine with Pyganic twice and they are growing like crazy with very few pests bothering them. We do have RKN here, but these seem resistant to them.
They are so easy to pick and turn a beautiful maroon color when ready making it much easier to see!
My suggestion would be to grow these on a trellis or netting as my vines were very long and they are much easier to pick when vertical.
Love these Peas!

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Mary

My first row of Purple hulks I planted, the Deer got. I tried again, and made a cover out of cattle panels fencing, as they grew I would build it up so my plants were safe. And I’m just now harvesting the most beautiful purple hull peas now. very nice and strong plants too. May try to plant some in my greenstalk.

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Norma

Great germination. My only issue is that I've never planted these before and didn't know how many to plant. I planted a 4' double row in my raised bed and got about a cup of peas out of it before most of the plants started dying. I will be trying again for a fall planting in ground with a couple of 10' rows. I pray they produce better that way.

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Troy Payne
Great products

We have used Hoss seeds for the last two growing seasons, last year was a great result. This year we received the seeds within three days of purchase and was in high quality packaging. This year every seed has resulted in a viable plant which emerged just four days after planting. Next season I plan buy all the seeds from Hoss.

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Derek Bowden
Great experience!

Fast shipping with good packaging. Out of about 600 planted I only had to replant 8 and I believe that was due to the crazy weather here in south Alabama. Will definitely be using you guys again in the future.