purple hull pink eye peas. not an expert but i know they love the heat here in tn. i have about 600 feet of em growing right now and they love the heat and they sell well at market, 1.50-2.00 a pound 22-25 a bushel. people say they are really good but i have not tried em yet you may wanna just check out a seed companiees web site they may have warm season and cool season crops you can choose from, or ask a farmer at your local farmers market im sure they might be glade to tell you just be sure they arent bizzy with a bunch of customers, walk around for awhile look at everything wait for things to slow down other than that i can't really help much maybe plant in the shade of a tall row of okra or a neatly tied up row of tomatoes could work but they are guesses just like yours, im still new.

I, too, had thought that peas were not a summer crop. Recently, my husband took me "boonie busting" (no trail) to a section of our acreage that I rarely visit due to hordes of mosquitoes. There was an acre of sweet peas! (beautiful!) We picked a pail, they were starchy rather than sweet. That isn't the point, though...in the spring that section of meadow is a bog. To walk there is to squelch there. Then it begins to dry up and the sweet peas bloom there a month after they are finished in the rest of the county. I'm thinking that moisture is the key, as this meadow is not shaded.