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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: nitiram on September 13, 2006, 14:23

Title: Peanuts
Post by: nitiram on September 13, 2006, 14:23

Has anyone ever grown peanuts in a greenhouse before? I have two fairly large plants that have grown from nuts the grandaughters planted. ...Now can anyone tell me when they will be ready? they have flowered, look like vetch with the same yellow flowers.   Or should I just have a scrabble about in the compost in the pot and see.

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Heather_S on September 13, 2006, 17:44

I'd go for the potato method of scramble around in the pot. They're weird plants, their stalks fall over and grow into the ground to grow the peanuts. I doubt there's many other plants that do that...
I remember growing a peanut plant from a peanut but it only lasted so long before it got forgotten  :oops: I named it Goober and everything too!  :roll:

Title: Peanuts
Post by: nitiram on September 14, 2006, 06:36

Sounds a bit like the sweet potato with the stalks falling over to produce the 'fruit'... mine have taken over the lottie!   As this peanut plant is just standing straight up I presume then that it has not produced anything?

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Heather_S on September 14, 2006, 09:26

http://www.auntrubyspeanuts.com/howgrow.asp That has a better diagram of what I was thinking of.

Title: Peanuts
Post by: nitiram on September 14, 2006, 14:02

Many thanks for the link....weird or what?

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: Bing on February 19, 2011, 23:26

(http://www.auntrubyspeanuts.com/images/plant-copy.jpg)

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: TheSpartacat on February 19, 2011, 23:55

I've heard of self seeding before... but wow, it seems peanuts are self sowing too!!!  :lol:

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: DD. on February 20, 2011, 07:49

Thanks for the reply, Bing, but this thread is well over 4 years old and the OP is no longer a forum member.

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: Rangerkris on February 20, 2011, 09:05

Its dragged up an old thread that has made me think of having ago.

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: Ma and Pa Snip on February 20, 2011, 09:18

Im with Rangerkris

It may be an old thread to some,
as a newbie I certainly hadn't searched back that far, nor did I know what type of plant Peanuts grew on until this made me google for more info.

Again as a result of the site I have learned something new. Whether it is off any practical use to me is another matter and really beside the point. Peanuts had just fed my knowledge.

No idea if they would grow in our climate, but my fortune could lay a few months away if I can grow them ready salted  :D

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: spottymint on February 20, 2011, 09:42

Hi

Some catatalogue company is selling peanut plants this year, expensive as i remember.

Title: Re: Peanuts
Post by: TheSpartacat on February 20, 2011, 13:50

Might be more fun to start one from seed.
The squirrels in my garden like to bury stashes of them in my borders, and they definitely do sprout. They seem like a high risk plant, so a bit of low risk experimenting?