How To Plant Peanut Plants

                                                                                    Do you love the taste of a freshly made peanut butter and jelly sandwhich? Have you ever wondered how peanuts are grown, harvested and cultivated? Peanut plants are a vining, shrubby annual with pealike flowers grown on long stems called pegs. After pollination, the pegs push and drop into the soil, producing peanuts on buried tips. Read the following article on how to plant peanut plants.

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1. Peanut plants require a long, warm growing season and grow quite well in an area with lots of sunshine. Try to grow plants in full sun with a sandy soil with organic matter. Plentiful moisture while vines grow and less often after flowering.  You can also start planting in pots indoors until the ground is warm enough to plant outdoors. Most peanut plants yield anywhere from forty to fifty peanuts per plant.

How To Grow

2. Make sure to plant peanut plants five weeks before planning to set out transplants if starting indoors. Set all transplants six to eight inches apart in diameter in rows, twelve to eighteen inches apart. Plant raw peanuts one to two inches deep. Cover sandy soil with loose mulch to help prevent crusting.

Harvesting and Cultivating

3. Pull up the entire plant if frost damage is shown. Allow pods to dry on plant in a cool, dry and well-ventilated area. Make sure to store pods in a cool, dry place for about twelve months. Normally cultivating is about one-hundred and twenty days or up to one-hundred and fifty days depending type of plant.

Tips: Wet soil will cause shells to be hollow. Very few diseases and pests causes problems.

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