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WINTER PEAS 
Winter peas are legumes extensively used in the South as a winter soil-improvement crop, 
widely adapted and well suited to planting with small grains. 
AUSTRIAN WINTER Pisum arvense 
A very widely used and well adapted winter legume soil improvement crop for the 
cotton soils of Texas and other southern states. Shows a preference for well drained 
fairly fertile loam soils. Produces a rank growth and high tonnage of green manure 
which decays quickly when plowed under. Makes its best growth in the cool, moist 
periods of the fall and spring. Often planted with oats for grazing and soil building. 
CANADA FIELD Pisum sativum 
A northern commercial field crop resistant to Fusarium wilt. Suited to mixed soils in 
Texas and the Southwest for fall and early spring planting as a soil improvement crop 
and for green, high protein grazing. In some sections used as a home garden variety 
for table peas. Probably should be used more often for soil building as it will grow in 
the cool dry periods better than most other legumes and may be planted with oats. 

Austrian Winter Pea 
