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Pulled a weed in my flower bed that turned out to be a peanut plant.
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Plant it back ! You nuts ???
I mean, I am nuts, but I also replanted it someplace safe 💚🥜
Probably comes from an old timer's squirrel feeder. Enjoy it.
No! They legumes.
When I worked in a kitchen in college, an argument between cooks about whether almonds are legumes once spawned the oft repeated insult, “Your mother’s a drupe.” Peanuts are indeed legumes. Apparently almonds and your mother are drupes.
See that's where you're wrong.
Your mother is a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Well I blow my nose at you and I fart in your general direction!
Can we speak to someone else?
My grandfather was Swedish, and my grandmother was actually a tiny bunny.
I never heard that term before. But has another name that's the same as in German: Stone Fruit/Steinfrucht. The German name for the 'pits' of such fruits (like peaches, cherries, plums etc) is 'Stein' (stone).
Apricot pits are very similar to almonds (but the fruit is tastier). You can crack them open and eat the very almondy "nut" seed inside. In fact, "Marzipan" is made from almond paste, but "Persipan" is made from apricot (or peach) seed paste.
Be careful, there are sweet-pit apricot and bitter-pit apricots, and one of them* is full of cyanide°. Yay!
*Both of them, but sweet-pit is low enough quantity to not be considered dangerous
°Amygdalin, which turns into/releases cyanide in the body.
Is that appeasment?
you're just bean obstinate.
Legume my balls
Not if he didn't plant it back.
Nut, singular, there is only one. Although there might be two inside, indicating that this is a male plant
Hope you replanted it somewhere!
I did!
Found 2 more in the garden and one in my sunflowers. I planted them in a safe spot for the squirrels to re-harvest (hopefully). 🥜🐿️
In my extensive experience, sorry to say, the squirrels never seem to remember where they buried their peanuts! Sometimes I leave the plants, as they develop pretty little yellow flowers.
They dig fake holes to spoof other squirrels from stealing their keep…. Then they themselves forget which were fake.
I've watched one bury a acorn, another go right behind him and dig it up, and go bury it somewhere else, lol.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm stealing this nut."
"Why are you burying it over there?"
"So some asshole doesn't steal it."
lol. I appreciated this this morning
I love squirrels so much.
For years at my old apartment, every now and then I’d find half of a biscuit, or part of a bagel, that sort of thing, in our mail box (which didn’t have a door anymore so was easily accessible). I was pretty convinced it was someone fucking with us…until I mentioned it to my landlord, and he laughed and said it must be squirrels.
There were always loads around, but it never occurred to me one of them might be the culprit, since the pieces of the baked goods were always so big. And now I’m sad I never got to see a squirrel drag a muffin inside the mailbox. :(
if it makes you feel better, i once tossed a blueberry biscuit out of my car window during my lunch break and saw the fattest squirrel come around the corner of the fence and nab it
I have bird feeders and they’re more for the squirrels than the birds. I love watching them do acrobatics on them. They’ll hang upside down and it’s hilarious. My cats love to watch them too. The only ones who will chase them off so they can eat at the feeders are the blue jays and the crows.
If you give a squirrel a pancake...
When I lived in Alaska, the cabin I rented had dog kennels (OG owner used to keep sled dogs) and an old outhouse that was only ever used while the cabin was being built. One day I saw a squirrel climb on the top of the outhouse and disappear for a bit and then pop back out and go on his merry way. I was curious (the outhouse hadn’t been used in forever) so I opened it up and looked and the toilet was filled to the brim with old dogfood, dried mushrooms, and nuts. Those outhouse holes are DEEP so this was like many, many lifetimes of squirrel hoarding.
I once found a peanut muffin buried in my garden.
They lose so many statistically speaking, I've started to think that squirrels don't actually 'remember' where they've put any of their nuts. I think they just bury things in places that seem like good spots, and then when they need them go 'now what looks like a good spot I might have buried a nut in...'
That's just adhd in a nutshell, lol
Trees actually have bulk nut years to take advantage of this. They flood the squirrels and other foragers out with too many to handle so they stuff them all in the ground and lose most of them.
your mom has bulk nut years
gottem
Fun fact! In North America party of the reason red squirrels are so much more territorial and aggressive than gray squirrels is that reds will make a small number of caches in a small area that they tend to remember better and guard, while gray squirrels will find a hole somewhere, bury a few acorns and whatever else there and basically think "I'll find it when I'm hungry, fuck it!"
This is why I constantly have oak saplings sprouting on the leach field every spring.
I call them bulb pirates, because Crocus and Gladiolas don't stay in their beds. I find them in the woods or on a hillside of my property where squirrels moved them and forgot them.
“Who put this peanut plant where my peanut used to be?”
I heard a statistic once, that squirrels forget where they stash about half the seeds they hide, which is responsible for a lot of forest propagation.
They’re not forgetful, they’re just conservationists.
They're greedy expansionists that build skyscrapers that they'll never use, some other greedy little chubby cheeks will get it for practically free after it sits for a few squirrel generations. Don't get me started on "birds" fish of the sky, pooping where and when they please and spying for the government /j
Squirrels use scent to find stashed nuts. They can forget the general area they might have put some, but if they remember the vague area, they will sniff it out.
I've had a problem with squirrels digging up my pre-bonsai trees that I started from seed. They know that baby oaks, walnuts, chestnuts, etc will have a nut at the base, so they're constantly coming and digging trees out of my pots because they smell a baby tree that grew from a nut they like, even if I already removed the nut. They ignore the other specieseseses. But sometimes especially in winter they eat bark and roots, so no trees are truly safe from them. They were even digging up and eating my chrysanthemums roots this spring and I had to cover them.
Squirrels are assholes.
I have sunflowers growing throughout my garden because my neighbor has a bird-feeder in their backyard. The squirrels keep burying sunflower seeds to stash for later, but they just keep sprouting.
I found a peanut in one of my plant pots the other day
They’re nitrogen fixers so good for your other plants.
Blue jays will cache them too. I saw one place a peanut between two little lumps of grass that had bare dirt in between, then place a leaf over it to hide it. Bless its heart.
Unless you're in the South, they're unlikely to produce. Peanuts have an unusually long season requirement
First time I've seen a peanut plant and how they grow.
That's the peanut that grew the plant. It'll produce more peanuts; the flower grows out near the ground, then buries itself and the new peanut grows there. I grew some peanuts one year and took them into school for show and tell. I tried to get some seed peanuts but my seed supplier couldn't get it again a couple years ago.
Wait until you see how cashews grow.
Based on how goddamn expensive they are I suspect cashews are grown held nestled in the hands of the world's foremost diva who sings to the cashew 24/7 until it's ready to be harvested at which point a team of gloved butlers carefully removes the cashew, places it on a velvet pillow, and delivers it to a gazebo made out of solid gold where it is then placed within a tiny can and sold for a markup that makes cocaine dealers jealous.
They grow on trees. Trees take a while to grow hence the expense.
That is an understatement of the difficulties of cashew farming.
This sesame street animation has been stuck in my head for 45 years. This is the first time I ever saw a photo, though! https://youtu.be/6l3_HC8EAV4?si=69CsnVSApY4oaFPQ
First time I've seen a peanut plant with an erection.
Jk; glad you replanted it somewhere safe
Gosh darnit. Here I was thinking I'd thought of a hilarious thing to post.
Rip, Jimmy Carter.
Hopefully they replanted him so that a new Jimmy Carter can grow.
So this is why his peanuts went sour
Wish that was my weeds....
Enjoy your horse nettle instead
At first I thought you were insinuating thay you'd want OP to pick up your weeds
I don't know why I never considered the fact peanut leaves exist like the things just grow by themselves underground
The peanut plant actually grows normal flowers above ground, but once those are fertilized they grow downwards into the ground where the peanut pea pods grow.
It was at this moment I realised why they're called pea-nuts. They're nuts that grow in pods like peas. How did I never realise that before‽
They're not nuts that grow like peas, they are actually just a fatty pea. If you boiled fresh peanuts they taste very much like beans and if you dry peas they taste very much like peanuts.
Potatoes will blow your mind!
My in-laws planted food scraps in my flower garden I pulled out potatoes smh
In the garden. straight up 'pullin it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. My peanuts
Reminds me of SpongeBob
Was looking for someone who also thought this
Heehoo peanut
We have a squirrel who has been hiding peanuts in our raised beds. I’m not sure if they’ll ever grow, but now I know what to look out for.
Are your nuts roasted? If so they wont grow. Need to have fresh soft peanuts, the ones that feel like peas.
They definitely grow. My wife feeds the bluejays peanuts (and by default, squirrels and chipmunks too) and we find these every so often in our lawn and garden beds. Blew my mind the first time I pulled one too lol.
I'm sorry peanuts grow under the ground like potatoes?
What the fuck
Well kinda.
They grow like a normal bush, make regular old flowers. But once the flower is pollinated, they send a shoot down from where the flower was and into the soil. Where the shoot pushes down into the soil a peanut grows.
Potatoes you find at the store are more like swollen root sections than anything else. Potatoe plants still make regular flowers and fruits that look a bit like a tomato with regular seeds inside.
And don't eat the "tomato"!
In German they are called earth nuts
Groundnuts for a reason
Someone in your neighborhood feeds the squirrels peanuts and then the squirrels go and hide them in people's gardens; one of them sprouted before the fluffy owner could come back to eat it lol. Source: I had a squirrel that was burying its peanuts in my lemon garden, and other neighbors were complaining that their gardens were getting torn up from this, as well
We build some new raised beds for growing veg, and the local squirrels went mad filling it with nuts before we could plant anything. We've since had a few peanuts sprout, so we're just going to let them grow now.
Squirrels keep burying shit in my window planter. Like, bro, I'm tossing this shit come winter. Side note - I covered the soil in my window planter with rocks and no more squirrel holes. Not sure if it just doesn't stick out to them as dirt or what, but it seems to have worked as a deterrent. Probably less useful in a proper garden.
get yourself some ketchup and some onions, baby you’ve got a sundae going. https://youtu.be/QCbAsf1Hpxk
Let's all sing! Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just nowww
They grow in the ground like a potato?????
In german they are called "earth nut".
In austrian a potato is called "earth apple" like in french "pomme de terre" apple of the earth.
So it makes sense they grow in the ground 😅
A weed is a flower growing in the wrong place.
That is how they grow?????!!! Wow
Looks like it's a peanut from the subspecies Deez
My mom used to feed peanuts to squirrels from our porch and they would take them and bury them all around our neighborhood, neighbors didn’t like it lol
Probably planted by a squirrel.
Probably planted by a squirrel!
Either that or it’s really happy to see you.
$20 can buy many peanuts.
Explain how... Money can be exchanged for goods and services
I found out I had peanuts growing in the corner of the backyard after my dogs would come inside with peanuts and I was so confused where they got them.
"Found a peanut (plant) found a peanut (plant) found a peeeaaannnuuuutt (plant) just now.."
whoa there, big fella, put that thing away
This is your reminder that a "weed" is just a plant growing where it is unwanted and not a biological category.
I've heard many people around my area talking about peanuts growing in their garden.
It's because my mother feeds the Squirrels peanuts every morning. lol
Goober peas, baby
George Washington carver would be disappointed in you.
Nuh uh he was a scientist and an experimenter and he would’ve appreciated this person learning in vivo and replanting.
but Jimmy Carter would be proud
Someone nutted in your garden?
Super Goof
One of your shithead neighbors is feeding squirrels raw peanuts.
That’s nuckin futs!
Replant it!!!!
You murderer how many peanuts did you kill to make that coat
Dude, I’d love to be a personal peanut farmer! Keep it going!
You could’ve at least wiped before you took the peanut out for a test drive
Probably a squirrels doing. You ruined it's crop! 🤣
a squirrel buried this peanut for later, and - of course - forgot about it. So that's how it got there - someone in your neighborhood is feeding the squirrels.
The squirrels know
Free peanut
That's nuts
Put him back.
I see the next reincarnation of Jimmy Carter has been chosen. We must begin your training immediately.
Hope you named it after Jimmy Carter.
Way to go, Jimmy Carter.
🎶found a peanut, found a peanut…🎶
Squirrels do this in my yard all the time. Turns out the neighbours behind me have a little squirrel feeding habitat in their yard.
TIL that peanuts grow from the ground like potatoes, I always thought they grew above ground in some capacity.
You have a diligent squirrel gardener around your house that is pissed off that you are reorganizing.
Deez Weedz
You busted a nut
A bird accidentally put a peanut plant in one of my pots a couple years ago. I let it grow till the leaves turned and pulled out a few peanuts. Didn’t eat them lol but I sure liked being able to see it grow and “harvest some nuts” lol
That's nuts
IDK, I’m getting legume vibes
I always love finding these. Not sure why I’m so tickled by it.
I’ve got a peanut plant for ya.. Sorry. I’m seeking help
Don’t feed the squirrels!
Full on corn stalks are growing in my garden due to neighbors feeding the squirrels.
That’s nuts
found the squirrel stash, lol
Are you spelling that correctly 🤔😀
Don’t make a sundae out of it or you’ll ruin your breath
Put it on your sundae!
Thats nuts
Jimmy Carter enters the chat
There's a squirrel somewhere plotting your death now.
Is that a peanut or are you just happy to see me?
its just happy to see you
Their paired leaves close up at night. Such a cool plant
I didn't read the title and thought that was a snake head that had somehow latched on and was severed.
Surprise nut
Put some glitter on it. Pretty nuts
Anybody wanna peanut?
No more rhymes, now. I meant it.
What growing zone do you live in?
Zone 6. Any tips on successfully raising peanuts? I found a few more and replanted them together.
Interesting! I don’t know much about growing peanuts, but I found this Better Homes & Gardens article that might be useful.article
Jimmy Carter has chosen a successor.
The squirrels have buried so many in my garden
I’m allergic 😭
There's peanut plants?
Life … finds a way.
i think this was the first post here to actually make go "huh" out loud
I did this last year, I grew it in a pot and it had lovely flowers
"You're a Gardener, Harry."
Is that you Candace?
OMG, YESTERDAY my wife had to use a plant identification ap to figure out some mystery plants growing in her flower bed. It's corn. We have 2 corn stalks in the front of our house. We presume the squirrels buried some after Halloween decorations last year.
I would replant that for a mini peanut harvest lol
Wow he's packing!
Squirrel gift
🎵Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a PEAnut yesterday...
Jimmy Carter’s legacy lives on
So nuts don’t grow on trees ?!
Snacks while working. See the earth provides.
Jesus, NSFW tag needed
They grow underground?
He was trying so hard for you.
This just made me realize I have never actually seen a peanut plant.
I get walnut seedlings in crazy spots all over my place. The squirrels think this is funny.
Peanuts. The Great Destroyer.
"Ain't nothing but a peanut!" - Ronnie Coleman
Imagine you had a peanut allergy 😭
My peanut farm withered.
Do you have scrub jays?
I get this in my garden! My neighbor who feeds the squirrels peanuts… as someone with a peanut allergy its amusing to say the least.
r/MightyHarvest
omg this sub is hilarious
Just found this subreddit out through this comment and it is now my favourite
Thats pure gold lol
OMG thank you! New fav sub!
That sub encapsulates my home growing experience rather too well. Reminds me I need to go check for the latest bounty.
Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/MightyHarvest/s/34QAtVp3Bp
You should jar the extra salsa and sell it to us poor, harvest-less folks
i wish i knew about this sub last week
my banana pepper plant was totally destroyed, every branch and leaf eaten by my dogs after it blew over in a storm. It was nothing but a twig a few months ago but somehow its recovered and grew two massive peppers, it looked worse than Charlie Brown's christmas tree
Thank you!
I’ve never joined a sub so fast