Purple Hull Peas Can Put Your Food Plots into High Gear

By Justin Stakes

Little Rock, AR -(Ammoland.com)- Many, perhaps most, Arkansans enjoy purple hull peas on their dinner table. Deer love the peas as well.

Planting in food plots is nothing new and is recommended by wildlife biologists of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission – but as one of a variety of plantings suggested to augment native foods for the goal of attracting wildlife by giving a boost to nutrition.

“Purple hulls” as most Arkansans call them are a type of black-eyed pea which in turn is a type of a broad category of plants called cowpeas. Some other varieties are iron clay peas, crowder peas, lady peas and southern peas. Originally from Africa, cowpeas have been grown in America since colonial days.

A problem with planting peas of any type is deer like them so much it’s hard to raise the peas to maturity. Deer relish feeding on tender leaves of young plants. They like eating the pods, and they enjoy eating the peas themselves.

One defense strategy is putting a fence around the pea planting. There are many different types of fencing that can be utilized. Fencing is most effective …read more

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