Growing Tennessee Red Valencia Peanuts

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Bought a pound of Tennessee Red Valencia Peanuts at Reifels yesterday. Going to plant these in the wake of the potatoes as soon as the ground dries up some and I can finish digging up the spuds.

Glad they got these back this year. Last year they had Spanish peanuts, but I much prefer the Tennessee Red. Been eating them up. I hope I don’t eat them all before I can plant them. $2.75/# is a bargain considering what the retail seed vendors online charge.

[Tormato]

If you have any 4-to-a-pod, save those for planting.

[karstopography]

If you have any 4-to-a-pod, save those for planting.

I’ll separate those out and put them in the safe and give my wife the key.

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Done, the fours all in one place. I’ll likely do a block of fours and then an identical block of threes and twos side by side and see if I can crack the nut on this.

[Tormato]

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Done, the fours all in one place. I’ll likely do a block of fours and then an identical block of threes and twos side by side and see if I can crack the nut on this.

I believe you already know not to shell them until the day of planting?

[karstopography]

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Done, the fours all in one place. I’ll likely do a block of fours and then an identical block of threes and twos side by side and see if I can crack the nut on this.

I believe you already know not to shell them until the day of planting?

Yes, and I won’t plant any that the red skins aren’t intact, but that might be overkill.

In years past, nearly every peanut I have planted has germinated. Has to be a number over 95%.

Still not sure of the spacing to use and I can’t ever find the definitive answer to spacing.

[claire838]

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Done, the fours all in one place. I’ll likely do a block of fours and then an identical block of threes and twos side by side and see if I can crack the nut on this.

This is oddly satisfying, I love how methodical you’re being with the peanut analysis. Sorting by count and then planning to compare them side by side? Peak data-nerd snack science. I’m honestly curious now… will the four-nut shells have any noticeable differences?

[GoDawgs]

Love it! This year I had a row on one side of a bed marked for peanuts on the garden map but unfortunately I needed that for something else. However your post has got me thinking there are a few beds that have nothing scheduled behind the brassicas that occupy them now so maybe I can use one of those. The plan was to use the raw dried peanuts that I buy from the grocery for roasting as seed. They're pretty but variety unknown. I need to see if the feed & seed has peanuts. Will check that out next week when in town for groceries.

[Tormato]

Gypsum? I think we discussed it before.

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Gypsum? I think we discussed it before.

Yes, I have a lifetime supply…maybe a couple of lifetimes.

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Tennessee Red Peanuts planted this afternoon. The fours next to the driveway, the threes on the other side.

Used Clemson U and Mississippi State guides to inform my spacing

http://extension.msstate.edu/vegetable- ... es/peanuts


https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/peanut/#

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Planted 4 rows of 8 feet of peanuts today. Meanwhile, the previously planted peanuts are up and growing
(Photo from Saturday).

Call it 64 feet of peanuts in total.

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A squirrel methodically dug up every peanut I planted. I methodically dealt with the squirrel. Will replant when the soil dries a little.

[Shule]

That's no fun about the squirrel digging up your peanuts. I think something dug up most of ours when I tried to grow peanuts once.

Do you eat squirrel, by chance? I know some people do. I got a free cookbook e-book on squirrel recipes once.

[karstopography]

That's no fun about the squirrel digging up your peanuts. I think something dug up most of ours when I tried to grow peanuts once.

Do you eat squirrel, by chance? I know some people do. I got a free cookbook e-book on squirrel recipes once.

I might, but it would likely be my last meal married to my wife.She grew up in a city and most city girls around here didn’t eat squirrels. My wife won’t even eat whitetail deer without protest. Meat should come wrapped in cellophane first and have a price tag attached, according to her. She’s come to hate the squirrels too though as they interfere with her stream of produce coming in.

I have eaten squirrel once upon a time. I would squirrel hunt way back when I was a teenager.

This peanut digging and eating squirrel was a dominant male squirrel that moved into the garden area all of the sudden. I kind of thought I had the squirrel situation settled in my favor for the time being. Most of the squirrels even remotely close to the garden area run and scamper far away to the neighbor’s lots now the second they see me. They had been giving the garden area a wide berth until the big male, lord of the squirrels, decided to test me.

I keep the little browning .22 lr sub sonic shooting iron handy at all times though and have had lots of practice. This big male squirrel was way too confident and even cocky for its own good. He made things easy for me.

Our little dog Tate that would get too wound up and worked up about the squirrels rather suddenly departed from this world back in early March so I am even less constrained in my war against the tree rats. In the past, I might let some of the squirrels slide and get away with garden incursions so as not to upset Tate so much. Tate shared my general hatred of the squirrel’s depredations of the garden, but took the battle far too personally and struggled with any defeat or little setback.

[worth1]

Big male squirrels aren't fit to eat they're too tough.
Fried squirrel is delicious.
My wife would eat anything I put in front of her at least once.
But she was not a fan of lamb or mutton.

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Big male squirrels aren't fit to eat they're too tough.
Fried squirrel is delicious.
My wife would eat anything I put in front of her at least once.
But she was not a fan of lamb or mutton.

My wife thinks lamb tastes and smells rotten. She also hates goat cheese, tastes like wet fur to her.

I love lamb and goat cheese. I’ve gotten to see a whole lot of squirrels up close. They definitely aren’t all the same size. The big males are quite…impressive…in certain places…

[worth1]

Squirrel nuts.

[Tormato]

Big male squirrels aren't fit to eat they're too tough.
Fried squirrel is delicious.
My wife would eat anything I put in front of her at least once.
But she was not a fan of lamb or mutton.

[worth1]

If cooked according to the bible most of the fat is burned off.
It's in some scriptures on sacrificing meat.
The fat is for God or some such thing.
But you can eat the rest.