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What does it take to grow them.Is it soil,or climate? Or is it just a 'regional' thing? We got to talking about them at my Tuesday morning coffee 'club'. One 'old' guy said he tried to grow them once.Said all he got were some empty pods.The tops were beautiful,but 'barren'.What kind of special equipment does it take to grow?I do know there is a special combine they use. Some guys here(western Colorado) use a peanut combine for pinto and other edible beans. Seems they are gentler(less cracking) and do a better job of seperateing dirt from the crop.My JohnDeere #71 corn planter is capable of peanuts,as there is a section in the owners manual about planting peanuts.Can they be irrigated,or do they take natural rainfall. Are they planted on beds? How wide are the rows?thanks,just curious. Steve
 
I planted a couple of rows in my garden a number of years ago. I'm in western NY for climate. They did OK. One thing did happen - the rabbits went around the lettuce and cabbage to eat the peanut plants. I would think the biggest obstacle to growing peanuts where they aren't normally grown would be processing. Maybe some niche market in your area for raw peanuts.
 
We grew a few in our garden years ago; we live in northern Kentucky. They grow under ground, as you probably know, so you don't know what you got until you dig them up. I would think you would need a tool like a potato digger to harvest them on large scale. Ours were ok, but I think they need a longer growing season, which is why they are grown in the south. Mark.
 
it is a legume so not much nitrogen is needed. The peanut flower produces a peg which runs underground where a peanut is produced. Loamy soil and a warm climate are best.. As the plants grow they will spread out in the row which aids the pegs reach the ground. I prefer to build a build a bit of a ridge in the row by cultivation to aid pegs in reaching the ground and prevent drowning in case.of a very wet growing season.
 
(quoted from post at 10:18:27 01/28/21) Our next door neighbor used to grow some in his garden, and sunflowers also to make his own bird seed
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I bought a bag of sunflowers and planted them and had a good crop. lots of bees etc when they were flowering.
 

Dad grew'em when I was a kid, around here you have to add potassium are gypsum its one are the other are you will not produce peanuts. Peanuts are a big deal in the eastern part of the state.
 
I experimented with one 100ft. row last year. Hand dropped and spaced them too far apart, grass took them due to wet Spring and Summer. Each plant made about six to ten peanuts. Going to try again this year and use the Covington planter. May use plastic mulch too.
 
Primarily grown in Texas, VA, N.C., S.C., and Georgia. I'm in Southampton County, VA, the largest peanut producing county in the state and soil is the main criteria. Got to be a bit sandy so they can expand out in the ground as they grow. Moderate rain at the right times and abundant sunshine help avoid disease. A good crop will yield 6,000 LBS per acre.
 
dad grew some in southern Delaware where i grew up.

just a couple rows for our own eating. He would keep a few to plant the next year.

seemed like they did ok. we had very sandy soil and of course could water the garden when needed. southern Delaware gets all seasons but has a fairly long growing season too. lots of veggies and watermelon grown there.

roasted them in the oven or microwave.

now in NC he has more pecans than he knows what to do with. he sells a few but last summer i helped clean up the ones that went bad before he got them shelled and put them in the compost. Filled the kubota loader bucket. I'm sure he sold and gave away about that many too. we have probably 10-15lbs in our freezers
 
I tried growing them in WV where we had sandy soil and got the same result, nice pods, but no nuts. Growing season there isn't long enough for Virginia Peanuts. I was told I should have tried growing the smaller Spanish Peanuts instead.
 
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