House and Habitat build thread:

catscratch said:
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One thing is certain; anything grown near grass is going to struggle some.


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That's funny...egyptian wheat, sorghum and millet are grasses.....never had a problem growing cowpea amongst them. Perennial fescue and brome have some allelopathic properties ....the grasses in your pic are hosting some leaf damaging insects....so is it the grass?....or other issues affecting the legume?
 
dgallow, you're always looking at the whole picture! I like that you see and point out things that I don't always catch. Helps me view the world through different eyes.

True that the grass could/is hosting some critters, but I have experience with this grass. I'm not 100% sure but I believe it is a native Buffalo grass. Nothing grows well near it, not even other grasses. When it pops up in my Fescue (if it's cut short) the Fescue looses. Maybe I was short sighted to say "grass" and lump this one in with the others but it really does act like it's allelopathic.
 
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The blackeyed peas are producing tons of really long pods at the tips of the plant. Another one is producing a lot of pods inside the plant (not sure if pod location would make a difference as a ploter or not). Most are producing at least a few pods...
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Man those bean seem to have grown fast. Maybe they were planted longer ago than I think. It would be interesting to see how the deer react to those pods when they are green.
 
Turkey Creek said:
Man those bean seem to have grown fast. Maybe they were planted longer ago than I think. It would be interesting to see how the deer react to those pods when they are green.
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They haven't been planted long, they've grown very quickly. I originally just wanted to see if they would grow, and how much frost it would take to kill them off. I had no idea that they would produce anything.

Right now I'm very curious about the blackeyed peas, and the other one that has a lot of pods inside the plant (don't remember which one it is, will have to look at planting pics to name it) for planting in row crops like millet. This would be cheap and maybe preferable seed over RR beans if you couldn't spray them anyway due to your row crop. If I was planting a monoculture I would probably plant RR beans for weed control. For my fall plot I just planted everything because in another month it will be cold enough to not matter.

Probably should just use cowpeas like dgallow showed in the earlier pic, but I like to goof with stuff...
 
catscratch said:
They haven't been planted long, they've grown very quickly. I originally just wanted to see if they would grow, and how much frost it would take to kill them off. I had no idea that they would produce anything.

Right now I'm very curious about the blackeyed peas, and the other one that has a lot of pods inside the plant (don't remember which one it is, will have to look at planting pics to name it) for planting in row crops like millet. This would be cheap and maybe preferable seed over RR beans if you couldn't spray them anyway due to your row crop. If I was planting a monoculture I would probably plant RR beans for weed control. For my fall plot I just planted everything because in another month it will be cold enough to not matter.

Probably should just use cowpeas like dgallow showed in the earlier pic, but I like to goof with stuff...
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And we are glad you like to "goof with stuff"... I like the "outside the box" approach...
 
catscratch said:
Probably should just use cowpeas like dgallow showed in the earlier pic, but I like to goof with stuff...
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Cowpea 101:

They generally fall into two classes:

Small seed forage types such as Iron/Clay and Red Ripper varieties.

Large seed food types such as Black-eyed variety etc.

Both are the same...cowpeas....some have a viney growth habit while others are bush type growth. Seeds of the forage types are edible....left the pod mature before harvest and shelling.

At times when forage cowpea seed availability was low we used the black-eyed variety for mixed bale silage with sorghum-sudan. The cost per 50 lb was the same for forage and food types (might not hold true every year).

For bush type edible beans in a mix might be best to use some of the shorter millet types, such as brown top. That way it is easier to pick.
 
The kids and I eat them all the time. We'll get home from a run or playing catch and stop at the bean patch for a snack.

Dgallow, thanks for the post. I learned from it. I had no idea that blackeyed peas were in the cowpeas family. I still have half a bag of proso millet for next yr so whatever I try next will be with a taller plant. I may have to plan a little differently than planned.

Thanks for the comments on the deer. I'm fortunate to live with nice deer in the area and have some of them be stupid enough to walk by during hunting season.

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