[nitiram]

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.

[Heather_S]

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:

[nitiram]

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?

[Heather_S]

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

[nitiram]

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

[Bing]

[TheSpartacat]

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

[DD.]

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

[Rangerkris]

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

[Ma and Pa Snip]

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 

[spottymint]

Hi

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

[TheSpartacat]

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?