These are purple hull peas.
We have 3 horses and I use the manure. Grass seed? Ha! My garden is already loaded with weed seeds. I can grow some bodacious lamb's quarters, giant ragweed, poor joe, crab grass, pig weed, wild sunflowers and creeping Charlie. So what's a few weed seeds from horse manure? Oh, I let the black eyed susan wild flowers grow, I even went around them with the cardboard. I have been known to just turn in the sheep in the fall. The picture of the pea patch, those peas are growing in horse manure. We just scraped it up in the horse lot and dumped it directly on the garden. Did not pass GO! Did not collect $200, did not compost it. Just dumped, spread and planted. The wonderful thing is, we have had a couple weeks of 100 degree plus heat, the horse manure holds water and we only have to water once a week. Last year, we spread a lot of wood chip mulch in the horse lot and barn to hold down the dust. We also feed round bales in the horse lot, so there was lots of rotted hay, rotted wood chips and manure, both rotted and fresh. Great Stuff!
