The name “George Washington” may invoke presidential images, but add “Carver” to the end and you’re conjuring peanuts in your mind. George Washington Carver developed more than 300 products from ...

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 ...

Growing peanuts at home is fun, hugely satisfying and often easier than you may think. Known by many other names such as goobers, goober peas, earth nuts, ground nuts, pindas and pinders - Arachis ...

Peanuts are generally grown in southern climes. Most come from China, India, Nigeria and the southern U.S., which all fall squarely in climates in or similar to USDA hardiness zones 8-11. Which is to ...

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 ...

SPRING VALLEY, Ill. -- Flowers of all shapes and sizes surrounded Larry Smith's house in Spring Valley this past summer, but what usually caught people's eyes was the 5-foot-tall tobacco plant.