Zipper Cream Southern Pea

66 days — 'Zipper Cream' is an easy shelling cream pea with high yields and a delicious flavor. It is great both fresh or processed. The pods are medium green in color with large white, creamy peas. At the green-shell stage, the string in the pod acts like a zipper making shelling easier. The pod turns a straw color when dry. The plants are a low, bushy-type structure with extensive runners. This makes them very productive.

Developed by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station in Gainesville, Florida by stabilizing a complex cross involving 'Korean Crowder', 'Mississippi 32', and 'Running Acre' and introduced in 1972.^[2] They are resistant to root knot nematodes^[1] and although primarily adapted for longer, Southern growing seasons, they do well for us here on the farm in Oregon. That said, our dry pea harvest is primarily made from the pods that set on the bushy part of the plant, whereas in locations with longer growing seasons, the pods on the runners would be able to reach maturity as well. Seeds are Treated. 

Each packet contains 1 ounce, which is about 120 seeds.