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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 00:38

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Leaf on March 31, 2008, 00:38

I was reading about growing peanuts and love them has anyone else grown them, do u think its warm enough on the Essex coast??

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Gwiz on March 31, 2008, 12:40

I'd love to be able to say yes, but I know nothing about "nuts"
I reckon this is something you'd have to look into on google!

Title: Peanuts
Post by: lucywil on March 31, 2008, 12:53

i have been looking into this too, from what i can work out you can use ordinary monkey nuts or even the nuts out of bird food (yes i know they are the same thing, i meant you don't have to buy special ones) but they are best grown in pots and i dont think you get a huge crop but i'm gonna give it a go any way just to see what happens

Title: Peanuts
Post by: vegmandan on March 31, 2008, 13:58

I tried it once using bird nuts in a pot.
I was expecting them to be produced on the plant after flowering. :oops:
After about 3 months it died so I emptied the pot into the bin and to my amazement there were half a dozen monkey nuts in the soil. :D

Title: Peanuts
Post by: nobby on March 31, 2008, 14:58

I tried to grow them last year
planted them in 2inch pots in the green house they germinated with in a week kept in pots untel end of may and used as ground cover around the sweet corn then it started to rain [lost the lot] :cry:

Title: Peanuts
Post by: gobs on March 31, 2008, 20:30

Quote from: "lucywil"

i have been looking into this too, from what i can work out you can use ordinary monkey nuts or even the nuts out of bird food (yes i know they are the same thing, i meant you don't have to buy special ones) but they are best grown in pots and i dont think you get a huge crop but i'm gonna give it a go any way just to see what happens

Quite right, you shall need quite a few plants for a reasonable crop, so it's a green house space thing as said by others they won't do well outside.

Bird food, not roasted, as forever is being successfully planted by my resident squirrel. :lol:  :lol:

Title: Peanuts
Post by: charley1980 on March 31, 2008, 21:35

howdo you plant them? Do you need to soak the nuts first or do you just chuck 'em in some soil as they are? skins on or off?

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Oliveview on March 31, 2008, 22:36

So if I buy some nuts from the supermarket tomorrow can I just plant them?  :?:
Pamela

Title: Peanuts
Post by: nobby on April 01, 2008, 15:34

start them like peas
be warned slugs love them

Title: Peanuts
Post by: Trillium on April 01, 2008, 15:40

So long as peanuts aren't roasted or salted, you can plant them (shell on preferably) directly into the ground, give them a cloche for a while and wait until they sprout. They do need some warmth to grow. The peanut sprouts eventually turn downward and into the soil where they actually produce the nuts, never on top where you can see them.  Harvest like spuds once the greens die.