How to grow peanuts in the garden: tips

How to grow peanuts in the garden? Just like on the windowsill. Yes, yes, this legume grows remarkably up to the middle band. And so few people to the south have tried to plant it in their area. At the same time, peanuts do not require unearthly care. He is very unpretentious. True, it requires some growing conditions. But all of them are quite feasible by any person and improvised tool.

Intrigued? Read on. Today we will understand how to grow peanuts.

Choosing seeds

More precisely, beans. From a biological point of view, peanuts are not a nut at all. Well, we will not go into the wilds of botany and the subtleties of the origin of the species. We are now more important to choose the right seeds for planting. They can be bought at any store or market. The main conditions are very simple:

1. Beans must be raw.That is, fried, salty, icing or sweet will not work.
2. On the seeds should be a native red shell. Peeled simply will not ascend. Ideally, it is better to buy peanuts in the shell, and carefully peel it off at home.
3. Beans must be whole. Sometimes sold halves or even crushed. Naturally, it is useless to wait for such seedlings from seedlings.

It is best to purchase seeds in the market. There you can touch them, inspect from all sides, choose the most beautiful. In the shop bag can be anything. Especially if it is opaque.

Council Try to buy large peanuts. Then your harvest will be rich with large beans.

Select a site

Aby where stick peanuts will not work. We do not have South America, so that any land should come up. It is advisable to choose a place where the sun will illuminate the landing from morning to evening. So the bush will receive the maximum amount of light. This is exactly what you need.

Still, it would be nice if this site was closed from strong winds. No, gusts do not break landing, they are too low. But even a light summer breeze can cool them.And peanuts like to live in a temperature range from +24 to + 27 ° С. When lowered, it stops developing. Does not die, but stops growing. Therefore, it is better to provide the most comfortable conditions.

By the way, young shoots of peanuts will have to be covered with something from birds. These birds get the sprouts with pleasure to pull out the sprouts to feast on the mother bean. And rip out absolutely all the shoots, to a single. Therefore, choosing a place for landing, consider how you will protect them. There are several options:

• To stretch a special net from birds. She still closed cherry and cherry trees.
• Put a scarecrow or stakes with booming shiny objects.
• Cover the seedlings with a thin non-woven material.
• Ask your or your neighbor's cat to guard the young shoots.

The latter method is not very reliable. These cats and strive to slip away about their business, or in the pursuit of a bird can themselves thoroughly mash planting peanuts.

Council Choose the first method. He is the most effective and reliable.

Cooking land

In principle, peanuts do not require special conditions. It is much more important soil friability.After all, the formation and growth of beans takes place under the ground. Therefore, it is recommended in the fall to make a decent amount of clean sand on the beds. This will give the earth the necessary friability.

At the same time, the plant should take strength somewhere for full growth and filling peanuts. Fresh manure is categorically contraindicated for him. Bold compost will only cause rapid growth of green mass, and flowering will be poor and miserable.

But after all we need flowers! From them then nuts are born. And what trace elements are responsible for good and abundant flowering? That's right, phosphorus and potassium. So, in early spring, as soon as the snow melts and the top layer of soil dries out a little, we apply any mineral fertilizer to the garden bed. Look at the package. Dosage applied according to the manufacturer's recommendation. Focus on legumes.

After this, we dig up the earth well, but we do not break the smallest lumps. Peanuts love a little rough ground, so you can bring the soil out of the forest and scatter it in the beds. Naturally, in the fall and spring we weed out all the weeds. They will interfere with the rooted ovaries. But in principle, weeding can be carried out regularly during the subsequent hilling.

Before the time of planting peanuts, it is desirable to once again land the ground.This will wake up the seeds of weeds. You will have time to weed the site again, so that nothing would disturb the bushes to grow quietly.

Council After spring preparation, cover the soil with black non-woven fabric. So it warms up faster.

Preparing peanuts for planting

Very often people complain about the germination of beans. Sometimes, only one out of a dozen, a maximum of three things, comes up. To warn yourself of such a nuisance, peanuts should be soaked before planting. Naturally, the shell is removed. So the bean will be easier to germinate.

In order to awaken the vitality in the nuts, they are soaked in warm water for 4 hours. You can even add any biostimulator or adaptogen to the liquid:

• epin
• zircon
• aloe juice

The amount of the drug can be viewed on the package. Just do not exceed the dosage. Seeds will still take as much as they need. So why waste?

After soaking the remaining liquid is drained, but the peanut itself does not need to be washed. Now the beans need to be decomposed in a single layer on a damp cotton cloth or paper napkin. To do this, take a pallet or a wide flat plate (dish).Top soaked peanuts cover with another layer of cloth or loose paper. Then slightly moisten the entire structure and put in a warm place. Darkness is not required.

After about 23-25 ​​hours, the halves of the beans should slightly open, and a small sprout will appear from the inside. Those seeds that did not wake up within 3 days are hardly viable. They can be safely thrown away or fed to domestic cattle (poultry). Just before that, rinse them to remove the biostimulator from the surface.

After opening the beans, they can be planted in the garden almost immediately.

Council Soak peanuts at least 2 days before the day of planting, in order to reject non-similar beans for sure.

We plant peanuts in the garden

Some recommend planting beans in the hole. It is inconvenient and long. Beans do you plant furrows? And the peas, too. And the worse peanuts? Draw already grooves, simplify your task. Leave a distance of at least 30 cm between them. So it will be easier to pile up the landing.

Thoroughly shed the grooves with clean water. Indeed, at first, sprouts need moisture. And by the time of landing it is almost no longer in the ground.By the way, peanuts are planted in the open ground approximately in the middle-end of May. At this point, there is no threat of return frost. And their peanuts can not stand.

After watering, carefully lay out the soaked beans at a distance of 16-17 cm from each other. Then we sprinkle with a layer of earth 6.5-8 cm. Garden beds are not mulched. Now it remains to wait for seedlings.

Council If the sprouts did not appear in 18 days, it means that you did something wrong.

Peanut Care

It is completely not difficult to look after shoots. Periodic loosening of the soil, regular weeding and average watering about once a week. We are waiting for flowering. It's hard to miss. Yellow-orange flower butterflies are clearly visible from afar.

The peanut flower lives only one day. It opens in the morning, by the evening it is already withering. But on the plant a lot of them. It is ridiculous to read that the peanut flower must be pollinated in these 12-15 hours. So say some articles. The plant is completely self-pollinating and is very good without help.

For the period of flowering a little complicated care. But don't let that frighten you. The difficulty is only that it is necessary to water peanuts more often. About once every 3-4 days.And once feed any phosphate-potash fertilizer.

Now it's time to pile up. Indeed, after flowering, the ovary falls to the soil and digs into it. It is there that the formation of nuts occurs. Therefore, we need a little plant help. All hilling is reduced to three stages:

• With the beginning of flowering, mounds gather around the stems about 5 cm in height.
• After a week, the mounds increase to a height of 13-14 cm.
• After flowering, the last hilling is performed. The height of the mounds is 22–25 cm.

This procedure allows you to get an earlier harvest. At the same time, it increases by almost 30%. After flowering, watering is again reduced to 1 time in 7-9 days. By mid-August, watering is gradually reduced, and by the end of August, it is reduced to nothing. Now we just have to wait for the harvest. However, during a cold snap below + 20 ° C (this sometimes happens), it is recommended to cover the landing with a film or dense non-woven material. Still, peanuts love heat.

Harvesting peanuts in the garden

The signal at the time of harvesting is the massive yellowing of leaves and shoots. Do not rush to pull out the bushes with your hands. So much of the harvest will remain in the soil.Use the most common garden forks. Just pry the bush, it easily comes out of the soil.

Of course, now there is a great temptation to peel a peanut in order to dry it as soon as possible. But after all in stalks and escapes still a large amount of nutrients. Therefore, without breaking the nuts, carefully shake off the bushes from the ground. Then hang them down with stems in a warm, dry room. This may be a barn or an attic. And only after complete drying of the tops you can pick off the beans. During this time, all useful trace elements will pass into them from the stems.

Well, now you have peanuts grown on your own. Part can be left on the seeds for the next year, and the rest is easy to eat.

Some useful tips

1. In our country, no diseases or pests that love peanuts are seen. The only thing that in a cool wet summer may appear rot on the shoots. Therefore, if it rains, it is desirable to cover the landing with a transparent film. Peanuts do not like excessive waterlogging.
2. Do not plant several grains in one well. Peanut bush is always lush and sprawling. He needs some room to grow.And if all three seeds grow, then instead of good development and proper growth there will only be a constant struggle for a place in the sun and food. The harvest in this case will be poor, with small tasteless beans.
3. Usually peanuts ripen completely by the end of September. But, it is better to dig the bushes a little earlier, if in your area at this time there are first frosts. The fact is that the nuts begin to taste very bitter after frost. And the bitterness is almost impossible to get rid of.

How to grow peanuts in the garden? It turns out very simple. Follow all the recommendations and be able to feast on the nuts of their own production. And no exotics! Having tried to grow it once, this wonderful plant for a long time you will write on their beds.

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