I grew PEANUTS in my backyard and made peanut butter!

I grew PEANUTS in my backyard and made peanut butter! | How to grow peanuts

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6 ай бұрын

I still can't believe I made my own peanut butter with peanuts I grew in my backyard! It took 6 whole months including curing time, but it was well worth it, and Im going to grow them again next year just because they're so easy!
All they need is plenty of sun, and some debatable amount of water, and that's it! Are you going to try to grow peanuts this year?
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@veryberry39 3 күн бұрын

It warms my heart to know there's someone out there who loves peanut butter as much as I do.

@lindahigginbotham8279 7 күн бұрын

I feel your joy, that is why I love gardening.

@stormydazeASMR 6 ай бұрын

Those have to be THE MOST BEAUTIFUL peanuts I've ever seen in my life! Congratulations on your awesome grow!

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you!! I love love love the striped variety. So pretty

@mahh154 21 күн бұрын

While you admired the beauty of the peanuts I was distracted by the beauty of the green nails!

@hellokimmy68 Ай бұрын

I had a random plant come up in one of my raised beds and had no idea what it was. So I used my plant ID app, and found it was a peanut plant! I couldn't figure it out, as I've never planted peanuts, but then I realized, I give whole peanuts in the shells to the birds and squirrels, so I assume a squirrel must have done some gardening for me. I'm looking forward to see what I get from my one little plant. Haha! I'm pretty sure it won't be as pretty as yours. I'm also in NC, in Chapel Hill and it had never occurred to me to try and grow them.

@Fullsnackdevelopr 5 ай бұрын

I love how you were so stoked throughout the whole process!

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

Nothing makes me happier!

@chamberswagner2010 5 ай бұрын

Now I really want to experiment with peanuts in my garden. Just the idea of making the worlds best PB&J sandwich on homemade sourdough, with my homemade jam and PB just sounds delightful. I have a small garden so it would probably only be enough for a couple sandwiches. But my garden is more for fun & experimentation than high production.

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

I feel the same way about my garden. The more fun and experimental it is, the better! I hope your peanut growing journey goes well!

@elisabethjones4917 23 күн бұрын

I'm definitely curious if you decided to do an unirrigated bed this year 😊! Questions: How long is the shelf life, just the ingredients you provided us? Can it be water bath canned for longer storage or does it have to be pressure cooked? If you don't make peanut butter, how long do the cured in shell peanuts last? Roasted peanut last? Boiled peanuts? Thanks for posting, it looks like quite the enjoyable adventure! ❤

@PaigeCreel-qs4vw 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I am married to the son of a peanut farmer so it brought back a lot of memories of us hauling p-nuts to the dryers after picking. As for the watering of the plants, my father-in-law always yielded more p-nuts per acre on the irrigated land. I really enjoyed your video. Keep up the excellent work!

@rinarose9544 5 ай бұрын

These peanuts are dressed to impress, omg :D I'm in zone 8b and for some reason I had no idea peanuts could grow in zone 8! I may have to try that this summer!

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

They really are! I love their striping, it makes them so beautiful! Zone 8 is perfect for growing peanuts!! You’ve gotta give them a try if you can ❤️

@az_growss 18 күн бұрын

How exciting!! I purchased some Tennessee reds that I'll be dropping in ground tomorrow 🎉

@Lorena-bd3ip 20 күн бұрын

The sweet taste 👅 of the labor and patience. Thanks 🙏 for sharing your amazing 😻 experience. Namaste 🙏

@seanimadavha1051 29 күн бұрын

I love peanuts and for years in Africa, we grow them next to corn

@pd8559 Ай бұрын

Above ground beds need irrigation because that are above ground. I stopped buying consumer gardening gear and switched to in ground gardening with tree trimming company wood chip mulch as a cover on top of the ground preventing sun from striking and drying out my ground. Even in stage D4 drought in Texas I never watered the in ground garden and it flourished. Lots of watermelons and cantaloupe melons. If that didn't teach me a life long lesson I don't know what have.

@meggrowsplants Ай бұрын

I would love to garden in ground but the soil here is just so clay and dense. Would’ve taken me years to amend it. I have started working on a few small in ground patches though and having some success.

@pd8559 Ай бұрын

@@meggrowsplants my soil is almost completely clay. It's called Black Gumbo Clay locally.

@Sunnylane02174 3 ай бұрын

I’m going to be growing these this year!!! I’m so excited!

@ClaireRousseau 6 ай бұрын

Ohhh, what a gorgeous harvest! I'm not sure it's possible to grow peanuts in the UK, even in a greenhouse, but you've cruising made me want to experiment with them. Unrelated to gardening, love your emerald nail polish, it suits you great.

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

It could MAYBE be possible if you start them indoors and choose a cold hardy variety like the northern Valencia hardy. If I were you, I would experiment with it! And thank you so much!

@RonZoiks 4 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I will be growing some peanuts this summer.

@robertsimpson2167 Ай бұрын

Great video Meg, love your enthusiasm, its inspiring.

@EdimentalGardens Ай бұрын

I grew peanuts last year too. From peanuts off Amazon that were meant for boiling. You got a much larger harvest than I did

@crystalgraves9325 Ай бұрын

I will definitely be growing peanuts next year! Thanks for the inspiration!

@ShelitaRN 5 ай бұрын

That was amazing!!! I so want to grow my own peanut butter! Those peanuts were beautiful! thank you for sharing pretty lady Meg!

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

This is your sign to do it! It’s so fun. Thank you so much ❤️❤️

@jenniferkvarnes542 6 ай бұрын

Well done! I love the striping on these peanuts. I am really interested in attempting to grow these now, I’m not far from you in zone 7a and hoping to give them a try this year or next! P.s. I love your nails! It’s not very common to see other female gardeners with cute nails and I love all the different sets you had in this video 😊 love your content Meg!

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! You could definitely grow them in 7a. You may need to start them indoors first though just to get a little bit of a head start. But definitely experiment with that! And thank you, they’re mostly press ons! I love wearing them but I also pretty much have to to protect my real nails. I have Hashimotos and it makes my real nails so thin and brittle so the press ons give them a barrier especially when I’m gardening! Plus, they’re just fun 💅🏼

@user-vd2xe5kn9c 3 ай бұрын

These type of peanuts is so beautiful❤❤

@wildspirits8683 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing learned so much!!

@growingoutthebox 2 ай бұрын

Hi Meg. I'm growing peanuts for the 1st time as well. I want to make a fertilizer using them. Thanks for sharing.

@HappyisRich 2 ай бұрын

This video is inspiring...I'm ABT to plant my peanuts today... Appreciate the inspiration v much💌⭐✌🏽

@alannahvictoria 2 ай бұрын

you are quickly becoming my favorite channel lol

@CharMac76 4 ай бұрын

I would totally do this! I don’t eat peanut butter I do like roasted peanuts, so I may give this a try. Thanks for sharing! 😊

@rbtalks1919 5 ай бұрын

Im going to try it!

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

Report back on how it goes!

@user-mq8mr4vg9v 5 ай бұрын

You can go to a really good bakery and get really good bread for a good price. But making bread on your own is a totally different experience. These things are no joke. You grew those mfing peanuts.

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

SUCH a good point!!! There’s just something about doing it yourself that is so fulfilling. I grew these mfing peanuts!

@AninhaPST Ай бұрын

Great video! Tks for the explanation! 🔝

@meggrowsplants Ай бұрын

Thank you (:

@diablomom 2 ай бұрын

I’m so interested in your experiment !

@thecottagepeach 5 ай бұрын

I'm obsessed with this

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

& im obsessed w/ you

@thecottagepeach 5 ай бұрын

@@meggrowsplants 😘 😘

@BridgitteValentine 2 ай бұрын

Very impressive 👏

@beverlyshaffer2464 Ай бұрын

They resemble. Potatoes flower and stems above fruit below

@gumdropgardens 6 ай бұрын

I ordered peanuts the first time this year, very well timed 👌

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

Awesome!! So excited for you to grow them! They’re so fun

@gumdropgardens 5 ай бұрын

@meggrowsplants my first "job" was pulling weeds out of peanut fields when I was 4-5 years old, it's about time the peanut fields are mine 💪 (by fields I mean maybe a 4'×4' garden block lol)

@suewolhart3535 6 ай бұрын

What variety did you grow? Where did you get your seeds? This is fantastic

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

The variety is called Fastigiata Pin Striped and I got them from southern exposure seed exchange!

@Tulip879 3 ай бұрын

I have been growing them .

@backyardgarden1932 5 ай бұрын

Hello Meg this video was great very informative. I’m going to grow peanuts this year in a grow bag I don’t know if that’s a great idea but I want to give it a try. I probably won’t get as much peanuts 😂 question when did you plant your peanuts? I don’t want to plant mine too early or too late.

@meggrowsplants 5 ай бұрын

Hi there!! Thank you! You can grow them in grow bags, but you’re right. You may not get a ton of peanuts. Usually each plant produces 10-20 peanuts in my experience. And you could get away with maybe planting 2-3 plants in a 20 gallon grow bag. As far as when you plant, what zone are you in? You should plant after the last frost and the soil is warm!

@EndlessWeekendlife 6 ай бұрын

I thought they grew on a bush. Lol Excellent video

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

Well, they kind of do “bush out” with their foliage when they’re growing, but all of the delicious peanuts are underground!

@brooklyn3534 6 ай бұрын

Loved this video! Definitely want to try growing peanuts oneday in containers through! Also I heard that you don't harvest until the plant starts to yellow! I wonder

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

See, I thought so as well. But frost came and mine never yellowed. And it had been over 150 days. So I just went by the days to harvest instead of the yellowing 🤷🏻‍♀️

@brooklyn3534 5 ай бұрын

@@meggrowsplants that makes a lot of sense!!! Worked well I think

@roxannesamaroo4844 Ай бұрын

Hi. Link to the food processor please I’ve been wanting a really good one.

@fab9db 14 күн бұрын

we call them groundnuts in Ghana!

@jo.el-peter 4 ай бұрын

15:13 min/sec. Had to replay that expression reaction to the first taste of homemade homegrown peanut butter. 😅

@lukasr.5839 2 ай бұрын

1:40 The German word for "peanut" is "Erdnuß" which actually means "earth nut" or "soil nut". However, I'm pretty sure many of us Germans don't even know why! ;)

@meggrowsplants 2 ай бұрын

Honestly that makes so much more sense! I’ve heard that it is like that in other languages as well. Someone told me that in Danish it means “ground nut”. Would take away a lot of the confusion lol

@pd8559 Ай бұрын

@@meggrowsplantsa lot of our older language made more literal sense. Modern English has lost so many old words and borrowed so many new words we lose the literal easy meanings, for example Middle English sykhous, and similar forms in other Scandinavian and Germanic languages is Sick House, where you go when you are sick. After the French invaded England a lot of French loan words came in. “Ospital”, being Old French is the basis for Hospital today.

@jesswelsh9838 6 ай бұрын

Hi Meg!

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

Hi there!!

@j.b.4340 2 ай бұрын

I grew them for the flowers.

@meggrowsplants 2 ай бұрын

Their flowers are so cute!

@kiemc1855 4 ай бұрын

Do you have to cure them if you plan to boil them? I love boiled peanuts I don't really care for roasted peanuts or peanut butter. I purchase some seeds this year and hope to grow enough to have at least one small pot of boil peanuts. Finding fresh green peanuts where I am is very difficult. When I lived in NYC I could find them in the Korean stores periodically but since I moved to New Jersey I haven't seen them at all

@Pocketsand662 Ай бұрын

“This is not a ton of peanuts” *thinks about Kevin’s pitiful peanut harvest video*

@meggrowsplants Ай бұрын

Hahahahaha I’m always teasing him about him and Jacques tiny little harvests 😂

@javidan7 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@susansparke6347 2 ай бұрын

When did you stop watering?

@Brianf1977 Ай бұрын

no chaos planting for peanuts?

@platinumphazer Ай бұрын

How do you keep the squirrels out

@beverlyshaffer2464 Ай бұрын

Build a cage of chicken wire .. the little demons can't go through 1/4 " contractor mesh.. where do you order your seed stock???

@DebRoo11 3 ай бұрын

I just received my valencia peanut seeds. Planning on trying them in a 50 gallon grow bag in Southern Ontario 🤞🏼 mine as well try for fun

@meggrowsplants 3 ай бұрын

Ahhh good luck! You’ll have to let me know how that goes! I’ve heard of northern gardeners having much luck with northern hardy Valencia.

@esmeraldaparker2137 6 ай бұрын

What zone are you in? I'm in zone 9b

@meggrowsplants 6 ай бұрын

Zone 8a, formerly zone 7b!

@hacc220able 3 ай бұрын

Welcome to the peanut gallery. The refs so far are a joke. Sober up and get your eyeballs calibrated.

@meggrowsplants 3 ай бұрын

Don’t even know what this means lol

@joseanimates1269 2 ай бұрын

yeah that peanut taste bland.

@meggrowsplants 2 ай бұрын

Noooo way

@joseanimates1269 2 ай бұрын

@@meggrowsplants I'm going to make my own bland peanut butter.

@Robert-ef3yw Ай бұрын

Can you hook me up with me with seeds. I have a bigger yard than you. But my brother has a business in Las Vegas . HI 2 sin. But he sells peanuts i am his older that just want to make him proud to make him proud! I will do my best so I ask the best of peanut s. K aloha