Anyone is growing peanuts?

[imgrimmer]

Last summer killed my dream of my own peanut landrace. Climate is not accurate for it.
There are not enough sources to collect diverse seeds to do a mass selection. Italian seeds completely failed, ebayers too. probably these are only imports from somewhere.
Where does your seeds in the US come from? Seed offers are really spare at least in the internet.
Where purchase commercial growers their seeds from? I found growers in Canada too but no canadian
seed sellers..
My order from the USDA is vaguely to be accepted. Any hints for good short seasoned peanut varieties?
Someone wants to give a short introduction in peanut growing?


Thanks!

[philagardener]

www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/peanuts/ lists six interesting varieties.

Annapolis seeds in Canada also has a short season-adapted variety: www.annapolisseeds.com/category-s/1870.htm .

I think they generally supply peanuts in the shell as that best preserves viability. I haven't tried any of these. Good luck with your project!

[blueadzuki]

I planted a handful of peanuts a few days ago (a heavy failure of my peas left me with a lot of empty but prepped peat pots, and I had the peanuts lying around anyway so.....)

Though I can provide no information on how to grow them (I'm new at this too) or what kind I have planted (they are some raw peanuts I found in a bin at an Indian grocery store, which impressed me with their unusually large size (these real peanuts are the same size as the "circus peanuts" candy and the nuts themselves are as big around as shelled hazels.)

[raymondo]

I grow a few peanuts each year. I got the original seed from a neighbour who I think just sprouted some raw peanuts they bought. I grow them just for a little diversity in the garden. Individual plants don't take up much space. I sow them when I sow beans.

[samyaza]

I grew 2 garden center brought plants in 2014. I don't remember if it was a Valencia type or anything early. It was a year in the average. They started to flower so long after transplantation I knew in advance they won't have enough time to finish. Overall eye-catching plant. I'll give a chance to the Nova Scottish strain this year. (I did well ordering in December, so I didn't know for the new, early, Russian, upland rice. I'm already crowded with all sorts of trials of this kind).

[imgrimmer]

I had good results with some varieties from the USDA. They were short seasoned and tolerable to cool summers. Seeds from other sources did not even make a single nut (or should I say bean? )

I was wondering if there is a tradition for peanut growing in the US or Canada. There should be different varieties then, but in the online stores there are no heirlooms.

[DarJones]

Black Peanut which Sandhill carries is a 100 day variety.

[nathanp]

I've never grown peanuts, but I have had the impression they like warm weather and do best in the southern US. Has anyone here grown them successfully in the northern US or Canada?

[steev]

I've never grown any, but I think my redwood-sawdust-amended soil might be good for that; interesting.

[imgrimmer]

website about peanut cultivation in canada

www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/93-061.htm

there are 3 canadian peanut varieties especially breed for Canada OAC Garroy, OAC Ruby and OAC Tango

all 3 selected out of PI 355982 from USDA. I`ve got seed samples of Garroy and PI 355982, they went into the peanut grex, so I can`t tell exactly if they are better then others...

[ferdzy]

There is a growing (ahem) peanut industry in southern Ontario, the Carolinian forest belt where they used to grow mostly tobacco. Them and sweet potatoes are the new crops. OSC (Ontario Seed Company) sells peanuts for home gardeners. I'm in southern Ontario, but kind of the north end of southern Ontario. I have the type of well-draining, sandy soil they like. We have grown them for 4 or 5 years selecting for best health and production each year and they are doing far better than they were at the start. Some years we need to keep them covered in a plastic hoophouse because we are very near a large body of water that has a moderating effect and by moderating effect I mean some years it doesn't get much above 20°C all summer. Other summers it will get right up to the 30°Cs and we leave them open, but who knows which it will be until it happens?

Peanut grex is the right term, I think; like many peas they are heavily self-fertilizing and I don't know that you will get any crossing. Who can tell though; one peanut looks an awful lot like another.

[imgrimmer]

There is little hope for my peanuts. I dug out all plants last year and brought them inside. Today I saw that one plant is still a little bit green. The plants are under blue light dead or alive it looks all the same If it is not a kind of mummified green maybe....maybe...

[prairiegarden]

Solana seed in Quebec sells peanut seed they say is good to zone 5. Valencia is the variety name if that's of any help.

[spacecase0]

this might be a good starting point
jandlgardens.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=242

[zeedman]

Apr 2, 2016 22:06:13 GMT -5 spacecase0 said:

this might be a good starting point
jandlgardens.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=242

Thanks for the link. I may try those peanuts myself, as well as a few of their other oddities.