Fancy homegrown peanuts?
If your garden is sunny, it’s the easiest edibles to grow, even for beginners!
Jessica said she did not expect that growing peanuts was so easy.
These were the raw peanuts she sowed in her raised beds.
Jessica shared how easy in 4 steps –
Sowed raw peanuts into the soil
Cover lightly
Planted in a sunny place
Water well
Even sowing the peanuts, she threw them without much order on her raised garden bed, “anyhow throw” style, covered with soil and “sprayed water” !!
When there was no rain, her peanut plants went without water for 3 days in a row, under full overhead sunlight.
For most of us living in apartments, with no garden beds, it is just as easy to grow them in pots, as long as your garden has full sun.
The pot should be wide at the base, considering these pictures of how the peanuts tend to be in bunches.
I rather let the plant had more room to grow bigger peanuts!
According to my reading, these seedlings are not easy to transplant, thus it is best to sow directly in the pots where they will mature. Germination is quick, only 3 to 5 days, water well after sowing.
Harvest day is 100 days from this point if all goes well.
Some folks in Singapore believed that soup from peanuts roots and de-shelled peanuts are good for growing children, especially boys.
Peanuts are snipped off plants and used without husks.
Member LK Koay shared an old chinese recipe for this soup :
As only the only bottom half of the plant is used, do rinse many times to rid the roots of soil AND recycle this water for your garden!
Sally Low shared how her very adorable peanut began its journey on May 27, 2016!
Her peanut in shell germinated (in 7 days) after soaking for 2 days.
This was not cracked or buried.
Sally said she did not cut any holes in the PET bottle for drainage, instead she laid 1.5 inches of leca balls at the bottom before topping up the soil, and only mist spray thereafter.
The progress in a matter of hours from first sprout.
At this point, they should already be in bigger pot.
Growing peanut seems easy, why not give it a try?