Growing peanuts at home is fun, hugely satisfying and often easier than you may think. Known by many other names such as goobers, goober peas, earth nuts, ground nuts, pindas and pinders - Arachis ...

Because it takes a lot of peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter, commercial peanuts are grown on hundreds of acres at a time. There's also tremendous value in growing a few peanut plants of your own.

Contrary to popular belief, the peanut is not a nut. It's actually a vegetable belonging to the legume family, which includes peas and beans. These tropical natives of South America require about 120 ...

Watch how a peanut plant is growing from seed to harvest in this 98 days time-lapse. The peanut seed was extracted from a store-bought pod, then sowed into soil. It was sprouted after a week and grew ...

Dec. 28—Editor's Note: Part two of a three-part series. TIFTON — From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit the land, ...

Peanuts are generally grown in southern climes. Most come from China, India, Nigeria and the southern U.S., which all fall squarely in climates in or similar to USDA hardiness zones 8-11. Which is to ...

The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that peanut plants can't. The genetic diversity of these wild relatives means that they can shrug off the ...