Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person harvesting peanuts from garden No, peanuts don’t grow on trees, nor are there peanut bushes. Once called goober peas, ...

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, ...

The widely consumed peanuts are actually the underground seeds of a tropical legume plant related to beans and peas, not nuts at all. Furthermore, peanuts have a very unusual way of growing. While the ...

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 ...

Land rotation: If possible, it is best to maintain a minimum three-year rotation (two years out of peanuts or any other legume, three years better). Rotation is the basis for controlling pod diseases ...

Recently, I read a Civil War diary in which the author described a group of Confederate soldiers sitting by a road singing a popular folk song titled, “Goober Peas.” “Goodness, how delicious, eating ...

Not long ago, a neighbor gave us some peanuts she said were from Peru. Since we’ve had good luck growing peanuts, we were excited to see how this variety would do for us. Our new Peruvian peanuts are ...

PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) - A lot of people in the Pine Belt are happy to see rain, but many farmers are hoping for some dry weather to speed up the planting of this year’s peanut crop. Drought conditions ...