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.

Before Americans created the pedestrian peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the peanut led an exotic life. Traced back to Peru and Brazil, the peanut was cultivated throughout South America and as far ...

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 ...

Trade in your grass lawn or groundcover plants for low maintenance and colorful perennial peanuts. Native to tropical South America, vibrant perennial peanuts (Arachis glabrata) like subtropical ...

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, ...

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 ...

Lee County-- It's peanut planting time again. South Georgia Farmers are putting in long hours planting hundreds of acres of peanuts. And they hope for another outstanding crop. Farmer Jason Wiggins ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Drought and strong prices could push more peanut production out of traditional regions and into states such as Arkansas and Mississippi not known for growing peanuts but with ample ...