Mississippi Silver Southern Pea

Received the seed in a timely manner, but that\'s about all the good I can say. When I received the two packets of seed, it looked like someone had cleaned out the bottom of the seed bin. I did a physical count and approximately 45% of the pea seeds were split in half. I planted the remainder and did not get good germination, so I ended up having to fill in the gaps with more seed just to get an acceptable stand. First time that I have used Victory seeds, and being a Texas based company I had high hopes, but probably will not purchase anything from them in the future.

This pea is easy to grow even in poor soil. A prolific continuous harvest produces absolutely delicious crowder type peas. They didn't flinch in the Texas heat (upper 90s-100s). I cook ours with only chopped onion, garlic, salt & pepper.

This breed of black-eyed pea is the best I have ever had in all my forty years gardening on Tennessee and Kentucky farms. It cooks up very richly flavored, with an impressive savory factor. Normally I put a little starch into the broth of my legumes, but the 'Mississippi Silver' pea produces its own thick gravy that needs only salt and a little olive oil to perfect it. Beyond this, the plant produces absolutely prolific pods that yield, for me, about a quart of fresh-shelled peas over the life of each plant. They'll have you picking pods every evening for six straight weeks before they slow down! They both dry and can very well. As a surprise feature (and to me the most important), we planted these in straight sand last year in central Florida's soil nutrition dead zone, and we had not any difference in plant growth or yield between central Florida sand and rich, Cumberland River Valley soil. These beans will feed you in the worst of times. What an investment. Buy them for your family before the freedom of organic gardening is turned into a criminal act by the perverse gods of privatization!