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, ...

Since you can walk on perennial peanuts—as long as foot traffic is light—they're popular as a weed-suppressing groundcover or lawn alternative. Their small, pretty yellow flowers attract butterflies.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Ever-popular peanuts are not nuts at all, but the underground seeds of a tropical legume plant related to peas and beans. The peanut plant has a truly unique growing habit. While the yellow flowers ...

Anyone who has grown their own food—whether that’s a singular tomato plant or a garden full of goodies—knows that it’s endlessly rewarding. Plant expert Christopher Griffin, also know as Plant Kween, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is peanut harvest time in the Missouri Bootheel. Interest in the versatile legume has grown among Bootheel farmers since 2018, says University of Missouri Extension soils and cropping systems ...