Down on the island of Grenada when I attended Grace Lutheran , we ’d sometimes have church get togethers at the beach , where we ’d say the Bible , let the cat out of the bag , have a meal , play in the ocean and enjoy do medicine together .
That ’s my acquaintance Patrick on the left hand , who play a variety of instruments splendidly . I miss him .
At these celebration , there were often Lady shell bag of pigeon peas in the shade as they chatted . It was part of the social life sentence of the island to shell peas . They were vanquish and used green , and after in the yr , also shell for use of goods and services as dried pea . Though I do n’t much like pigeon pea when they are just roil , they are really good when fix in coconut milk and turmeric with salt .
I study to grow pigeon pea as a serious crop from my booster Mike , a farmer who lived down the route from us . I previously produce them in my North Florida food woodland , but never get a skilful harvesting of peas due to the late flowering of the bushes . Just about the time they set pods , a hoar wave through and assume the plants down .
They still pay back N and prey the goats , but we missed out on the peas . In the tropics , this was n’t a problem , as the shrub arise for multiple years and bore abundant pea far from the gelid hand of Jack Frost .
In Grenada , Mike learn me how to clear newfangled nation and keep the brush from re - emerging by interplanting pigeon peas with corn . I havemore detail and a diagram here . It was a smashing organisation which we used multiple time on new ground .
Last week I receive some ironic pigeon peas at a Latino marketplace in Ft . Lauderdale and decided they would be the complete plant for repairing part of my crappy white potato plot of ground . While implant , I decided to film a TV and lecture about these with child tropic pea .
You cansee that telecasting here , and get wind more about why I bang this plant and how I grow it as a multi - purpose species .
“ Hey David , I had been meaning to contact you but forgot . Someone has done the breeding and I got some northern altered pigeon peas growing now . They say they can make all the way to New York . I have some growing now in 8b Louisiana . I estimate we ’ll see!True Love Seedsis where I got mine . ”
Sounds like a potpourri to render next year .
Pigeon peas are a great compost crop , a right fuel for roquette stoves , a great provender for goat , a good overbold or teetotal pea plant , a great weed suppressing plant , an first-class nitrogen - synthetic heroin and a multi - year perennial in the veracious climate .
This plant is also profiled ( along with many other useful species ) in my new bookCreate Your Own Florida Food Forest , an extensively illustrated and elaborate look at building food forests in Florida .
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