How To Grow Carolina African Runner Peanut
Carolina african runner peanut an annual flowering herbaceous legume the carolina african peanut is a runner variety peanut spreading its vines while scarcely growing a foot and a half high.
How to grow carolina african runner peanut. Hardy and vigorous and excellent for small crops but this variety is vulnerable to a few modern peanut diseases when grown on a large. Carolina african runner peanuts raw and ready to grow. Peanuts fix nitrogen naturally and therefore don t need much in the way of fertilizer. Now the carolina african runner peanut is back from the brink.
Seeds comes in pods heirloom please see below 5 99 loading in stock. Add to favorites click to zoom gardenlandscape 1 916 sales 1 916 sales 4 5 out of 5 stars. The carolina african runner peanut was harvested for the first time in a half a century on november 26 2013 at the clemson coastal research station south of charleston south carolina. Brought into the new world by enslaved africans at the end of the 17th century the carolina african peanut the first peanut cultivated in north america was patch cultivated throughout the west indies and.
He contacted ward and asked him if he d be willing to cultivate some peanuts for him. The first commercial crop of 15 million peanuts was harvested this past november slated for chefs artisanal peanut butter. Brian ward stands for hours at a time carefully hand sorting shelling and cleaning a small distinctive and somewhat celebrated peanut known as the carolina african runner peanut. Carolina african runner peanuts raw and ready to grow.
They take between 130 and 150 days to reach maturity which means they need a long. And like most rare finds it has a. A young carolina african runner. But just a couple of years ago dr.
Seeds please select an option quantity please select a quantity add to. How to grow runner peanut plants. Like most other legumes peanuts harbor symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria in their root nodules. Seeds comes in pods heirloom please see below.
At clemson university s coastal research and education lab horticulturist dr. Like other peanuts they need full sun and somewhat rich loose sandy loam. The yellowish flowers with their distinctive pea bonnet configuration form in clusters above ground. As a legume it belongs to the botanical family fabaceae also known as leguminosae and commonly known as the bean or pea family.
A runner peanut vines can spread 3 ft great for keeping down weeds but needs 2 3 weeks longer to mature than other peanuts if trying to grow these north of se virginia start seedlings inside then transplant out a month after last spring frost. Peanut is an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm 12 to 20 in tall. Self pollinating the flowers wither and the stalk at the base of the ovary pushing it into the. The carolina african runner peanut re emerges giving farmers and chefs a new culinary adventure.
4 realizing that in fact these were the last of the carolina runners. David shields a food historian at university of south carolina tracked down a peanut sample that had been modestly labeled peanut no. Thought to have become extinct around the 1950s two types of the carolina african runner breed were recently discovered having. It not only emerged as the favored peanut for eating but was also the foundation for a successful oil extraction industry during the civil war.