This year I have gotten very excited about planting some peanuts as a different way to grow some protein and heal our soil at the same time.
Valencia Peanuts (the ones with the red skin) grow best in our crazy climate, so I ordered them and had them sent via UPS (shipping was just as much as the peanuts themselves!). $16 and 5lbs later, here they are!!! However, they require a good 150 days of growth to actually produce their peanuts, and we generally only get 120 days of frost free growing time so these little guys will start their journey inside this weekend. Cheers!
That is exactly why we have never tried growing peanuts. Too short of a season especially since we are always five degrees colder than in town. We'll just let the farmers in Portales do their thing. Maybe you will have luck by starting early and the warmth of the adobe walls might buy you a couple weeks on either side of the season.
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