Harvesting Ground Peanut

Yep, it's the peanut I planted last July! I finally harvested them last November, about 3 weeks ago.

From 1 big container and 1 4-gallon pot I only harvested about 500 grams of whole peanut(including the shell). In below picture, you can see some nutshell was covered with white fluffy wax, that's because the plants were attacked by mealybugs. I thought I had a late harvest because some of the peanuts have started to re-germinate. 

But ideally, it takes 4-5 months for peanut from planting to harvest. So, it shouldn't be too late to harvest them in November. I guessed some are rotten and germinated because it had been raining a lot. The other reason, or main reason, why I only harvested a little was because the plants overgrew the containers and many runners that developed the pegs, which supposed to become peanuts failed to enter the soil, thus many pegs were spoiled as the picture below.

It could be that I gave them too little space between plants. So when they overgrew, it's already too hard to fix the problem.

Learning from the process

Peanut is quite easy to plant, it's perfect to be directly planted in the ground as it will be spacious for the runners/pegs to reach the ground. It's also VERY possible to plant it in containers. But for a better harvest, just make sure you give each plant enough space to grow. See, how much we learn from our from the process! Experience is the best Teacher!