How to grow peanuts at home in the country?

Undoubtedly, a lot of summer residents wondered how to grow peanuts in their summer cottage? It is quite difficult to overcome the dream of getting an excellent harvest of a new exotic plant. For most regions, peanuts are a fairly rare plant. In addition, growing peanuts at home, which is difficult, is an exotic crop in general, and we will emphasize this fact twice.

A few facts about exotic culture

The legume peanut crop, which is a warm-loving plant, is a peanut. It is this factor that is the main reason for its spread in the subtropics. Native habitat - South America. It was from there that it was brought to India, and after that, peanuts became popular in Europe.

The largest peanut fields can be seen in South America. In those places, there are the most ideal conditions for its cultivation. But, today, summer residents increasingly want to get a good harvest in temperate latitudes. And the most positive thing at this point is that they can achieve good results.

According to the classification, peanuts belong to the legume family, but its main difference from similar crops is that the fruits are formed underground. The annual crop grows in the form of a small bush that sprouts branchy stems. The shape of the leaf blade is paired, the inflorescence is small with a bilious color. At first, it may seem that these are ordinary flowers.

Features of the correct cultivation of exotic peanuts

Like all plants, the peanut crop is fairly easy to grow. Planting peanuts in the country will not take much work. Peanuts grow well when the air temperature is over 20 ° C. The plant stops its growth only when the temperature drops to 15 ° C and below. But this does not create a big problem, when the temperature drops, you just need to cover the peanuts with a coating (a film is perfect).

Thus, how to plant peanuts in the country? The answer to this question is quite simple - planting a plant can be carried out when the soil temperature exceeds 15 ° C. To increase the amount of harvest, in the spring (in April), the seeds of the culture are planted in cups to a depth of about 3-4 cm (it is necessary to soak in advance), and after that, they are already planted in the ground in the garden.

It is worth adhering to this planting scheme: 50 - 65 cm between rows and 15-25 cm between plants in the same row. Peanut beans have one peculiarity: the plant only blooms for one day. In the early beginning of the day, the flowers of the plant bloom, and in the late evening they wither.Therefore, an important feature is that for this day, they must have time to get pollination. Usually, peanuts begin to bloom at the end of June, and only after pollination do the peanut ovaries sink into the ground, where the fruits will ripen.

Proper care of peanuts

As you can see, planting peanuts at home is quite simple, but the main thing is to take proper care of the plant after planting it. By properly caring for planted peanuts, you will achieve great fruitfulness.

What to do after landing:

• after lowering the stalk into the ground, the bushes huddle (like hilling potatoes);
• during the flowering of peanuts, it needs to be watered well, flowers and roots love water;
• after the end of flowering, watering is done only during a prolonged drought;
• as soon as the peanuts begin to show sunrises, they need to be protected from being eaten by birds, because they can completely ruin your landing.

How classic care is carried out: peanut seeds are planted, after the plant has risen, it is weeded and fed.

During the vegetative period of the plant, summer residents do not face possible plant diseases. When you notice that the leaves of the peanuts are starting to turn yellow and the stems are drying out, this means that the peanuts are ripe and can be dug out for harvest.

Getting the long-awaited crop of peanut beans

Usually, peanuts are harvested at the end of September. Withdrawal of fruits is simple:

• you need to dig up the peanuts;
• then shake off the ground;
• then place the fruits in a dry place.

As you can see, planting peanuts in the country will not be difficult. This plant is able to satisfy all tastes of every summer resident. It is worth noting that peanuts are a fruit with excellent nutritional properties.

What valuable properties are included in the content of the product

Peanuts contain:

• insignificant amount of sugar;
• a lot of carbohydrates;
• a decent amount of protein and fat;
• all necessary vitamins for humans.

Relatively recently, in America, tests were carried out that proved that peanut beans contain a huge amount of antioxidants, their main purpose is to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease.

Regular addition of peanuts to the diet prevents the appearance of atherosclerosis, malignant tumors, and also delays premature aging. Also, it is important to know that peanut fruits contain linoleic acid, it is she who has an anti-sclerotic effect, and vitamins E, B, etc.

What to stick to when landing

The main thing is to find an area for planting, where a sufficient amount of sun comes in. In this place, where you are going to sow peanuts, there must be rich fertile soil. The peanut legume crop additionally fertilizes the land, and ultimately takes care of the health of the people who planted it.

Peanuts will enrich the body with all the necessary minerals and vitamins, which are often lacking in the human body. In addition, it is very important that people who are on a diet allow themselves to eat a few nuts a day. It is very important. Only here fried peanuts for weight loss are 100% contraindicated.

How to grow peanuts in the country: Video

Many of us love nuts, of course. You can eat them just like that, or you can fry, decorate pastries, add to desserts, muffins, cakes, or make various sweet snacks with them in the form of nut pastes or mixtures with dried fruits and honey.

Homemade peanut harvest

Nuts in the country?

Now on sale you can find nuts that are completely different in taste and appearance, for example, almonds, walnuts, cashews, cedar, Brazilian, chestnut, hazelnuts, pecans and others. But traditionally the most accessible of them is peanuts or peanuts. And due to its unpretentiousness, it is also available for self-cultivation.

Peanuts in the country Few people have tried it, but even in the middle lane, a groundnut can be easily grown in your summer cottage by sowing seeds in the spring immediately into the ground. The main condition for obtaining a good harvest here will be the presence of a warm sunny summer and the absence of prolonged torrential rains in September.

Preparing the land and sowing seeds

We harvest the seeds in the fall, extracting them from unpeeled peanuts in shells purchased on the market.

Groundnut (peanuts)
In the spring, around the last week of April (or on the May holidays), we allocate a free piece of land for planting peanuts, preferably away from trees that block the sunlight.

A plot occupied by a vegetable garden last year is perfect. We dig it up and harrow very carefully, removing the remaining weeds.

The soil must be loose before planting.
We make parallel grooves about 5 cm deep in the ground at a distance of about 50 cm from each other.Place peanut grains in them, maintaining an interval of 20 cm between them.

We lay the seeds Fill the grooves with earth and water the future plantation abundantly.

Growing features

The first shoots appear 2 - 2.5 weeks after planting, in the second half of May, which is about a week later than that of

chickpea

and

masha

.

Young plant of peanuts This happens, as a rule, always evenly, and soon the entire planted area is covered with young green plants.

Peanut seeds have excellent germination
During cultivation, you can add mineral fertilizer 2-3 times (June, July, August), while the development of plants is more amicable and intensive.

Peanuts respond well to feeding and loves the sun very much.In cloudy, cold and rainy weather, which this year stood out for two whole months (May and June), it would not hurt to also add heat under the roots, and the sun on the aboveground part. For peanuts, these are the main indicators of a good harvest.

More clear days - more harvest In normal years, it is sufficient to water the plants twice a month, and in dry periods and during flowering - every week. Waterlogging of plants should not be allowed, especially during the period of fruit ripening. Weeding and loosening the soil around the bushes should be done every time after watering.

Flowering and fruit development

Around the middle of June, the grown peanut bushes bloom.

Flowers are bright yellow. If planted too deeply, the flowers may appear even from the ground.

Reaching for the sun The peanut bloom lasts more than two weeks. By this time, most plants have formed several (4 or more) trunks, and the foliage acquires a rich bright green color. And by mid-July, the faded bushes reach a maximum height of 25-30 cm. After that, the bushes can be spud like a potato.

In the prime of life The culture of peanuts is interesting in that for the formation of ovaries, the plant releases arrows from the trunks that go underground, and it is in the ground at their tips that the future fruits of the peanut are formed.

Arrows Fruits develop slowly, gradually increasing in size. That is why a long warm period is so important for their full ripening.

Peanut fruit ovary

Harvesting

In our region, peanuts usually ripen by the end of September, which is why in years with a rainy beginning of autumn, a significant part of it can simply rot in the ground, not having time to fully ripen.

Since the fruits of peanuts develop and ripen underground, it is possible to detect the ripening of the fruits by digging up a control bush (or, preferably, several around the perimeter of the site).

Control shrub Also, the ripening of peanuts can be judged by the appearance of the plants, when the bushes "droop", dropping the foliage.

It's time to harvest But it is impossible to bring the bushes to a completely dry state (like potatoes), otherwise the harvest during harvesting may crumble in the ground or disappear from the same decay when waterlogged.

It is better to dig out such a bush in advance. In years with late spring and cold summer, peanut fruits can ripen only in October, as a result of which the plants fall under frost. But the fruits themselves do not suffer at the same time, therefore in such years (if there are no prolonged heavy rains in the fall) it is worth postponing digging out the bushes.

After frost. October 1, 2017
Naturally, before the first frost.

After frost. Time to dig After removing the bushes from the ground, you can observe both the formed and still developing fruits.

Everything in the collection Even small bushes have a well-developed root system and the harvest is visible.

In the common piggy bank We wash the roots of plants in water. The earth comes off easily, and now you can see part of the result of our labor.

Harvest of one row Among the one-, two- and three-leguminous fruits there are also very small balls: the short cold summer did not allow everyone to develop. When collecting them, you can safely throw them away, since they are usually underdeveloped inside.

The nut is only in the initial stage, while in the rest of the shells even the most "suspicious" ones have nuts inside. In skin color, they are usually light pink or barely starting to turn pink.

Formed beans Further the fruits can be separated from the plants and rinsed again.

Graduates

Drying fruits

After harvesting, peanuts need a long (about a week) drying in a warm place - in the sun or on the floor at home, or even better - on a mesh base under a fan. Dried fruits will rattle when shaken. And only then can the peanut beans be removed from the shells. After drying, they take on their usual deep pink or hot pink color.

In the pan and fry! It is from your own harvest that you can select the best seeds for planting next year. And then it will already be possible to grow the strongest and hardiest plants, which in the summer on your site will turn into a real green peanut carpet.

Green blanket And in the fall they will surely delight you with unusually tasty and healthy nuts.

Good luck with your experiments and a nutty mood!

Deterioration of the ecological situation, climate change on earth requires increased efforts to organize a sufficient level of nutrition for the population anywhere in the world. New varieties of useful plants appear that are capable of producing crops in different climatic conditions. Together with them, questions arise, for example, how to grow peanuts or another interesting plant. Modern technologies in the field of food production make it possible to create from them long-term, tasty food products. On their basis, a person implements the main idea of ​​our time: a healthy lifestyle regime based on proper nutrition.

Nature has created for mankind a large selection of useful plants suitable for food. The past centuries have taught how to use them correctly as healing agents, food. Among the countless number of this kingdom, nuts occupy a separate place. They were found in ancient burials, taken with them on campaigns associated with difficult trials to restore strength. Used in rituals, hoping that they will bring happiness, wealth, health, good luck in everything. And, of course, everyone wanted to admire their tree, inhale the aroma of its foliage and flowers every day. Therefore, the question of the correct cultivation of nuts, for example, the cultivation of walnuts, has always been important and interesting.

The large list of nuts includes the beloved peanuts. We are so used to small grains hidden in neat bags on store shelves that sometimes it seems that it grows everywhere, always and it's easy to grow it. And although this representative of warm countries has long become the owner of large, small plantations in other climatic zones, being the closest relative of legumes, we call him a peanut.He received this name because of the peculiarities of the formation of fruits that distinguish him from the familiar beans, peas, soybeans. On the ground part of the plant, a flower forms, which adorns it for only one day. The sacrament of fruit formation occurs underground, hidden from human eyes. Delicious fruits ripen in a mysterious silk-like cocoon. How to grow peanuts in the country, at home is well studied. The technology has been tested not only by professionals, but also by amateurs in small suburban areas, even at home.

The benefits of peanuts

Many beneficial properties of peanuts have been known for a long time. Scientific studies that have revealed the chemical composition of peanuts have confirmed the effectiveness of its use in organizing proper human nutrition. Use as a prophylactic, supportive agent in the treatment of many diseases. Vegetable fats, proteins, well absorbed by the body, vitamins, minerals are collected in it in a harmonious complex. It improves memory, hearing, sleep, attention. To help with exhaustion, overexcitation of the nervous system. Prevent the appearance of some forms of cancer. The high caloric value of peanuts does not lead to weight gain due to the lack of cholesterol. Of course, you need to stick to the reasonable amounts recommended by your doctors. A high protein content may well reduce the amount of meat consumed. For small snacks, you can eat a peanut butter sandwich, a few delicious nuts. The use of peanuts for the prevention of atherosclerosis, heart disease increases with heat treatment. Healing substances are found throughout the plant. Shells, stems, nuts serve not only as food products, but are used in pharmacology, cosmetology, and solving agricultural problems. It will seem even more useful if you learn how to grow peanuts at home, do it yourself, see all the stages of its development. Some care tips can be found below.

Growing peanuts

As planting material, you can use fresh seeds of ordinary nuts purchased from the store. The first but important step is to soak them in potassium permanganate. This is recommended at the end of April. They germinate in about 10 days. Get biweekly seedlings for small areas well in peat cups. Plants in them develop quickly, are not damaged by a bear, ripening dates come earlier. When soaking, the shell is not removed. Nuts are aged on a damp cloth until sprouts appear. Sprouted seeds are planted in prepared soil. It should be fertile, water-permeable, digging in the autumn. Excess salt content, high acidity will have a bad effect on the formation of plants. The composition of the soil is improved by the introduction of chalk, lime, dolomite flour. A good effect is given by the introduction of phosphorus fertilizers, humus before the spring planting of peanuts. At the same time, as the fertilizer necessary for the plant, it is recommended to apply nitrophosphate at the rate of 70 g per square meter of the area allotted for cultivation. Sowing in open ground is carried out from the end of May, if the temperature regime of the soil is stable, which is about 15 °. The site should be located in an open, sunny place with the possibility of effective ventilation. The popular omen that determines the time of planting peanuts is the time of flowering viburnum. This coincides with the planting of melons and gourds. Usually make holes 10 cm deep. Place them in a checkerboard pattern at a distance of 35 cm from each other and place three, four soaked seeds or one or two with a sprout. The seedling method is essential for growing peanuts in northern areas. It can be planted with individual beans, whole cocoons, on the peel, which are settled by beneficial fungi and bacteria. The main thing is not to forget that their germination capacity is completely lost after two years of storage.A distance of 25 cm is left between the rows. When planning a place for growing peanuts, it is recommended to use the improvement of the soil structure due to the correct crop rotation. The best predecessors of peanuts are potatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, and cabbage. Tomatoes can be a useful companion for peanuts, for which such planting conditions are beneficial due to the possibility of obtaining nitrogen supplied to the bacteria developing in the nut tubers.

When the time comes for the appearance of beautiful small shoots, you need to be careful. The interest of numerous flocks of birds in them is greatly increasing. Without protection, installed scarecrows, you can quickly lose a significant part of the crops. Peanuts are moisture-loving plants. In the initial periods of growth, it is watered at least once a week. The soil should be moist without stagnant water. The best option is to organize drip irrigation. During flowering, the appearance of ovaries, the plant requires the maximum amount of water. This contributes to the appearance of gynophores, special processes on the formed bush instead of flowers. These are not just the ovaries found in any species of the legume family. Gynophores grow up for a very short time next to peanut stalks. They independently go to the ground, hide in it. Only then do real ovaries of peanuts form on them. At this point, it is necessary to huddle the bush to a height of 10 cm. The process is repeated every 12 days three times per season. During this time, a powerful bush grows, which does not need to be watered, but only loosened, weeded. Mineral fertilizers are applied three times: when the first leaves appear, flowering, the formation of ovaries.

The germination of peanut seeds depends on many factors related not only to storage conditions. It is enough not to remove them in time in the fall, allowing for the first frost, how can you not count on seedlings next year. Although the taste will remain the same. When buying fresh peanuts in a regular store, we have no information about the variety, the quality of the seeds. Therefore, the only correct solution would be to purchase seeds of the desired variety in specialized stores. For peanuts, this is also important because now many varieties of a thermophilic plant have been obtained, adapted for growing in climatic conditions that are not ideal for it. All cultivars are usually grouped into four large groups: Virginia, Valencia, Runner, Spanish. Species Red, White Tennessee are marked separately. A sign of such a division is taste, the content of various aromatic elements, the size of the nut, the value of resistance to various diseases. For cultivation in small areas of central Russia, local varieties can be purchased. For example. Stepnyak, Klinsky, Adyg, Acorn, Bayan. For large plantings, varieties are often used:

1. Runner. Wild species of this peanut are found in various states of the southeastern United States. Back in 1940, having appreciated the excellent taste, the ability to effectively roast, and high yields of plants, breeders received a large number of varieties, including them in this group. All of them are distinguished by high productivity, excellent taste. Among them are Early Runner, Bradford Runner, Southeastern Runner 56-15, AT-108 ', other varieties. They are most often chosen by manufacturers of various peanut products.
2. Spanish group.
   Small fruits of plant varieties of this group are most often grown in the countries of South Africa, USA. They are inferior in many respects to the new varieties of the first group. But their great advantage, which is still popular today, is the high percentage of oil. There are many popular varieties in the group. These are Dixie Spanish, Improved Spanish 2B, OLin ',' Tamspan 90, other varieties.
3. Virginia. Its large size and taste make this group popular for preparing a variety of peanut products. Namely, they are sold in salted form, confectionery.The crop is formed on shoots, bundles.
4. Valencia Group. The sizes of fruits and bushes in the varieties of this group are the largest. In manufacturing, it occupies a privileged position for the creation of cooked peanut products. The crop has almost no small nuts.

Choose one or two varieties. After two years, the seeds of a plant are obtained, well adapted to their climatic conditions. On an industrial scale, the transition to the use of a new variety is always associated with a change in the planting technique, the introduction of modified types of seeders, harvesting machines, threshers, and other agricultural equipment.

To determine when the crop is ready for harvest, you need to carefully look at the bush. The leaves should turn yellow. Cleaning is done on a dry, not rainy day. Having dug a bush with a pitchfork, it is gently shaken off the ground. Later harvesting is associated with the loss of part of the crop. Because some of the nuts break off from the stems on their own, remaining deep in the ground. The nuts are dried along with the aboveground stems in the sun for two weeks. The quality of drying can be determined by the sound that appears when the beans are shaken.

Peanuts are affected by the same diseases, die from the same pests as all legumes. First of all, these are caterpillars, aphids, thrips. Root rot, spotting. Damage to stems, viral diseases. To combat them, there are chemicals that are easy to buy and process in accordance with the instructions. Peanuts are not a difficult plant to care for. It has long been grown not only on large plantations, but also on ordinary private farms, summer residents and even at home.

Growing in the country

The basic agrotechnical techniques remain the same. Simply, one must take into account that for beds with walnuts, you need to find a sunny, ventilated place, and not under mature trees. Watering is required. Usually there is an opportunity for this on the territory of summer cottages. Planting is recommended to be done in seedlings. This will speed up the ripening time of the peanut.

At home

Peanut bushes will decorate the windowsill, the greenhouse shelf. How to grow peanuts at home will be advised by expert advice. Planting is done in small cups, and then planted in a permanent place. At home, it is important to choose the right pot size so that there is room for the drooping stems and free placement under a layer of earth. For this, it is recommended to purchase wide pots. Hilling in them is done by pouring fresh soil in the form of a mound in the center of the pot. The pot is placed on a sunny windowsill, a bright, warm balcony, avoiding drafts. Having shown care, ingenuity, you can treat your family with homemade peanuts, admiring its decorative leaves all summer.

Wherever this wonderful plant grows, it attracts attention with its beauty and healing properties, creating a real revolution in the system of human healthy nutrition.

See tips for growing peanuts

The peanut, which is so loved by many, can be grown in the garden. Growing peanuts is not as difficult as it might seem. It is only necessary to select and sow an early-ripening variety, and also strictly follow all agrotechnical recommendations.

Peanut

Biological features

Despite the fact that peanuts are considered a nut, in reality they are a distant relative of beans. This is an annual legume crop with a height of about 0.5-0.6 m, having a taproot, which, in turn, deepens by 1.5 m.The diameter of the upper part of the rhizome can reach 1 m, which, in fact, explains the resistance of peanuts to droughts.

Peanuts on the field

The leaves are paired, have a dark green tint. Flowers are collected in inflorescences in the leaf axils and are orange or yellow. One flower develops in the inflorescence, due to which the flowering phase lasts from the last days of June until the onset of autumn cold weather.Flowers open at about 7 am and bloom until noon.

Peanut bush

Note! Each bush produces an average of 30-70 beans and about 2,000 flowers.

A few days after flowering, a young ovary begins to develop in the place of each flower, which is a kind of aerial "root", bending and heading towards the ground. In the language of science, these ovaries are called gynophores and are designed to protect offspring from drought and heat. The upper part of the gynophore, after penetrating into the ground, grows rapidly and forms a pod in the shape of a cocoon or cylinder (for this reason, soil looseness is so important when growing a crop). Each such bean produces 1 to 4 oval-shaped pink seeds.

Peanut fruit

Basic requirements for growing peanuts on the site

Consider what conditions should be provided for the normal development of culture.

1. If peanuts are grown in large quantities in order to obtain oil, then it should be borne in mind that the color depends directly on the soil. The oil obtained from the beans planted in light soil will be light, and in the dark - accordingly, dark.
2. Nuts form in the ground, so it must be loose. As for the specific type, black soil, neutral or sandy loam soil is most suitable for peanuts.

   The soil must be loose

3. The culture grows well in the beds where tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes and cereals were previously grown. It is undesirable to plant peanuts after other legumes (peas, beans, etc.).
4. The most suitable temperature for peanuts is considered to be 20-27 ° C. If this indicator falls below 15 ° C or exceeds 30 ° C, then the plants will simply stop growing.
5. During the flowering and formation of underground beans, plants need constant moisture, but water stagnation should not be allowed. And around September, during the period of seed ripening, excess moisture can slow down this process.

   Avoid stagnant water

6. The beds where peanuts are planted should be ventilated.
7. Finally, the bushes should be well lit. It is unacceptable to have plants near peanuts that can shade it.

   Peanuts grow well in sunny places

If at least one of the above conditions is violated, then the culture will begin to hurt - spots form on its leaves, indicating the development of root rot.

Stage one. Preparing the site

Start preparing the beds in the fall. Dig the selected area to the depth of a bayonet shovel, then apply organic fertilizer - compost, humus or wood ash at the rate of 2-3 kg / m². In the spring, cultivate the area (to a depth of no more than 10 cm) and remove the weeds along with the roots. It is also advisable to add nitrophosphate (about 50 g / m²).

Cultivation

Stage two. Choosing and preparing planting material

To get the greatest yield, give preference to zoned varieties. Buy them from a reliable gardening store or alternatively from friends or neighbors. As seeds, not only beans (crushed / whole) can be used, but also husked seeds.

Planting material

The most common varieties of peanuts in temperate climates include the following:

• Stepnyak;
• Klinskaya;
• Krasnodarets 14;
• Valencia 433.

Note! When buying, be extremely careful so that you do not slip fried or otherwise processed grains. Otherwise, time and money will be wasted.

Preparation of planting material for peanuts

Groundnuts can be grown both by sowing in open soil and through seedlings. If you prefer the first option, then use only those seeds that were harvested no more than 2 years ago (germination is lost over the years). Regardless of the chosen method, the grain must be germinated around the last days of April. To do this, follow the instructions below.

Step one. Take the seeds and immerse them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 15 minutes to disinfect.

Potassium permanganate solution

Step two. Rinse the seeds with running water and soak for germination. After 10 days, the first shoots are formed.

Soak

Step three... Temper the resulting sprouts. To do this, during the day, keep them in a room with a temperature of the order of 3 ° C for several days, but transfer them overnight to where the temperature is at room temperature.

Sprouts

Stage two. Landing

Further, the germinated seeds are sown in the soil or grown for seedlings. Let's get acquainted with the features of each of the methods.

Method one. Planting in open soil

When the temperature regime is at least 20 ° C (for the forest-steppe, this is usually mid-May), and the ground at a 10-centimeter depth warms up to at least 15 ° C, you can start sowing germinated seeds. If the temperature is lower, then the seeds will simply rot before they can sprout.

Prepare the planting site using one of two possible schemes:

• square-nested (0.7x0.7 m or 0.6x0.6 m), in which 5-6 grains must be placed in the hole;
• wide-row (the distance between the bushes is 15-20 cm, the row spacing is somewhere around 60 cm).

Groundnut peanuts: cultivation

In both the first and second methods, the sowing depth should be 6-8 cm. Take only large grains, since small or damaged seedlings may not give rise. After sowing, cover the holes with earth, compact slightly. It is worth noting that the shell of nuts contains many beneficial microorganisms, so many gardeners grind it and place it in the holes during planting.

Note! At first, protect the plantings from birds (such as magpies, crows, etc.), because they can destroy not only young shoots, but also seed.

How to protect peanuts

To protect against the bear, you can make one simple bait: collect the grain and cleanings, dig it all in the garden, and then cover it with a piece of roofing material. Pour manure or plant debris on top. Make several of these lures and look at them from time to time, collecting a bear.

Growing peanuts in the field

Video - Planting peanuts

Method two. Growing seedlings

As noted earlier, peanuts can also be grown using seedlings. In this case, proceed according to the following algorithm.

Planting peanuts in a cup

Table. How to grow peanuts seedlings

Conditions for growing good seedlings of peanuts

Stage three. Further care

In May, the land is still sufficiently moistened with melt water, which means that it should be watered only after the mass emergence of shoots (twice a month, using only water heated in the sun). Better to resort to drip irrigation or, alternatively, furrow irrigation. Young shoots will immediately turn yellow.

An equally important condition for a good harvest is periodic hilling.

Hilling peanuts

Perform this procedure several times per season.

1. Before flowering, spud the plants to a height of 0.5-0.7 m.
2. The second time, hilling is done 10 days after the beginning of flowering.
3. In the future, do this every 10 days, over time, reducing the distance between the gynophores that appeared during flowering and the soil. Make the final hilling in early August.

Using the technique for hilling

Video - Hilling peanuts

Finally, add min. fertilizers, namely 450 g of potassium (if we are talking about sandy loam soil), 500-600 g of phosphorus and 450-600 g of nitrogen for each hundred square meters of land.

Apply top dressing:

• during the formation of true leaves;
• while tying buds;
• during fruit setting.

Stage four. Harvesting

Peanut harvesting process

By mid-autumn, the fruits should ripen. Roughly in early October, when the weather is dry, dig out the bushes with a shovel.Lightly shake each bush off the ground, turn it over and lay it on the ground with the root system up so that the fruits dry out a little. Then move them indoors or under a shed to dry and keep them there for at least 4 days.

Snapshot of ripe peanuts

Once the stems have dried naturally, start to process the peanuts. Next, dry the fruits at room temperature and place them in cardboard boxes for storage (you can use small canvas bags instead of the latter). Store fruits in a dry and well-ventilated place.

Note! To speed up the drying process, you can use, for example, an oven, but the temperature in the appliance should not exceed 40 ° C.

About other ways to grow peanuts

There are other, less popular growing methods, which in fairness should also be familiar (at least in general terms).

In warm beds

How to make warm beds

Warm beds

When choosing one method or another, you should pay attention to warm beds. Prepare the latter in autumn or early spring, following the instructions below.

Step one... Decide on a place and dig trenches of 15-20 cm. The recommended width of the beds is 1 m, as for the length, it can be any.

Step two... Place the top layer of soil on one side of the trench and the bottom layer on the other.

Step three... Cover the bottom with plant remains, sprinkle them with a small amount of soil. Sprinkle rotted compost on top.

Step four. Cover the beds with a top layer of earth.

After about 60 days, the beds will consist of warm, nutritious soil, which is ideal for growing crops.

Heating the beds with a cable

Houses

After growing the seedlings, you can leave yourself 2-3 sprouts to grow on the windowsill.

Step one. Take a wide container and fill it with earth mixed with sand / humus.

Step two. Plant the plants in the soil, place the container on the lightest windowsill (there should be no drafts in the room).

Peanut sprouts

Step three. Expect a flower to emerge and a pod to form. Make sure that the shoots do not go beyond the container, otherwise the set fruit will not develop.

Step four. Loosen and water the soil periodically.

Step five... When the plant stops growing and the leaves turn yellow, you can harvest the fruit.

Peanuts on the windowsill

In the greenhouse

In greenhouse conditions, the culture feels quite comfortable, especially next to tomatoes (the latter should not be located too densely so as not to shade the peanuts). In this case, the peanuts will share nitrogen with the tomatoes, and you only need to huddle the bushes twice (in June).

In general, planting and care is not much different from what needs to be done when growing in open soil, except that the vents and ends of the greenhouse need to be periodically opened for ventilation. Harvesting can start as early as September.

Video - Features of growing peanuts