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@cobalt123 So yeah, proper drying and storage are crucial with peanuts. I actually picked up a proper food dryer a few months back, so I'll be using that to dry them (and will clean everything thoroughly afterwards).

"This video guides viewers through the process of harvesting and curing peanuts. The presenter demonstrates how to identify mature peanuts, dig them up, and prepare them for drying. They also discuss the importance of proper storage to prevent mold and rancidity."

youtube.com/watch?v=U6KI4ucBM-

YouTubeHow To Harvest And Cure PeanutsBy Country Living Experience: A Homesteading Journey
#Gardening#SolarPunkSunday#GrowingPeanuts
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Juggling With Eggs

By complete chance this evening I discovered that Charles Schulz created a kids US history series in the late 1980’s…It’s America, Charlie Brown.

Maybe this is well known in the US…but less so over here in the UK!

Anyways…my kid who loves history and #Peanuts is super excited! We just watched the first episode ‘Birth of the Constitution’…let’s just say it’s lost none of its relevance!

archive.org/details/AmericaCha

Internet ArchiveThis Is America, Charlie Brown : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveFrom the voyage of the Mayflower to the bold exploration of outer space, join the Peanuts gang as they take you on a timeless journey through American history!...
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DoomsdaysCW

#OrganicGardening Soil #Inoculants - Benefits Of Using A Legume Inoculant

By Heather Rhoades
May 18, 2021

"Peas, beans, and other legumes are well known to help fix nitrogen into the soil. This not only helps the peas and beans grow but can help other plants later grow in that same spot. What many people don't know is that a significant amount of nitrogen fixing by peas and beans happens only when a special legume inoculant has been added to the soil.

"Using pea and bean inoculants is simple. First, purchase your legume inoculant from your local nursery or a reputable online gardening website. Once you have your garden soil inoculant, plant your peas or beans (or both). When you plant the seed for the legume you are growing, place a good amount of the legume inoculants in the hole with the seed. You cannot over inoculate, so don't be afraid of adding too much to the hole. The real danger will be that you will add too little garden soil inoculant and the bacteria will not take. Once you have finished adding your pea and bean inoculants, cover both the seed and the inoculant with soil. That's all you have to do to add organic gardening soil inoculants to the soil to help you grow a better pea, bean, or other legume crop."

Read more:
gardeningknowhow.com/edible/ve

However, the inoculants for most legumes will not work for peanuts...

"Will soybean inoculant work in peanuts?

A. No. The product may be similar in name, but the species of bacteria needed for these two legume crops are different. Bacteria know what their primary host is and the signal chemicals sent out from the roots of the soybean are different than those sent out by peanut. The soil is full of many different types of bacteria, but those signal chemicals tell exactly which bacteria to respond. Putting a soybean inoculant on peanuts is simply wasting money.

"To get the benefits of nitrogen fixation and the resulting vigorous root growth, disease protection and, ultimately, a boost in yields, an inoculant specially produced for peanuts should be used."

peanutgrower.com/feature/inocu
#Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #GrowingPeanuts #Peanuts #GrowingBeans #SoilInoculents #GrowYourOwn #FoodSecurity

gardeningknowhow · Organic Gardening Soil Inoculants - Benefits Of Using A Legume InoculantBeans and other legumes are well known to add nitrogen to the soil. What many people don?t know is that a significant amount of nitrogen fixing happens only when inoculant has been added to the soil. Click here for more info.
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DoomsdaysCW

So, I had already picked up some "seed peanuts" from the local feed store (which reminds me -- almost time for seed potatoes and baby onions), and I've grown them in the past. However, I've never tried growing them from store peanuts, so if someone else has, let me know how it worked out. Also, peanuts are another plant that benefits from inoculants -- however, peanut inoculant is different than bean inoculant! (More about inoculants in my next post).

How to Grow Peanuts in Soil from Store-Bought Nuts
Lois Capone by Lois Capone
March 25, 2025

"I’ve always found something magical about growing food from everyday grocery items. Peanuts, in particular, are one of those crops that seem almost too simple to grow, yet many people assume they require a specialized process."

Read more:
gardenandcrafty.com/how-to-gro
#Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #GrowingPeanuts #Peanuts #GrowYourOwn #FoodSecurity

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Garden & Crafty - Garden, DIY, Home · How to Grow Peanuts in Soil from Store-Bought NutsI’ve always found something magical about growing food from everyday grocery items. Peanuts, in particular, are one of those crops
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In the Dark

Trump’s Tariff Tirade

I didn’t watch the speech tirade by “US President” Donald Trump* last night in which he unveiled his new tariff plan, but people have been talking about this all day so I couldn’t resist a quick comment. There’s a lot I don’t know about economics and trade policy but one thing I do know is that the trad-weighted average tariff on goods from the USA entering the EU is about 3%, not the 39% that Trump alleged. I did therefore wonder where he got this number and all his other “reciprocal tariffs” from. Fortunately a little digging around revealed the answer.

On the left you see part of the chart showing tariffs country-by-country and the second is an extract from the published methodology which would be hilarious were the consequences not so serious.

part of the list of “reciprocal tariffs”The magic formula

You will see that the second column on the chart is headed “Tariffs charged on the USA”, with 39% listed for the European Union. This number is calculated using the “formula” on the right which has absolutely nothing to do with tariffs charged. Moreover, the denominator contains the product εφ with the values ε=4 and φ=0.25 given in the text so εφ = 1. The expert mathematician who derived this formulae seems to have missed the fact that ε is not less than zero (first sentence) if it is equal to 4, but we’ll let that pass. In fact I can’t be bothered to point out the other errors because no matter how egregious they are, there is no chance of Trumpty Dumpty reversing his decisions anyway.

To sum up, the notional tariff in column 2 is just the difference between imports and exports (the country’s trade surplus) divided by imports. The numbers in the third column of the chart on the left are just half those in the second column (give or take rounding errors and the fact that there is a minimum of 10%). China faces huge tariffs because it has a large trade surplus with the USA. The EU’s 20% tariff is nothing to do with the tariffs it charges but is due to the fact that it has a trade surplus with the USA; the UK has a lower tariff rate than the EU because it has a smaller trade surplus  with the USA. That’s it.

I heard a Trump-supporting numpty attempting to justify the calculation shown in the chart on the grounds that it is really an “unfairness index”, it apparently being unfair and worthy of punishment if a country sells more to the USA than the USA sells to it. Following this line of reasoning, I have decided that all shops are unfair because I always buy more from them than they buy from me.

P.S. I was thinking that in future retaliation I should boycott goods from the USA but this would be an empty gesture because I don’t really buy any anyway. Looking up top imports from the USA to Ireland I find, for example, Bourbon (which I never buy because it is undrinkable) and confectionery (which I don’t buy because I don’t have a sweet tooth). Then I found peanuts, which I do buy occasionally, and will not buy in future. However in the grand scheme of world trade, peanuts are small potatoes.

*I apologize for forgetting to mention that Donald Trump is a convicted felon.

#China#ConvictedFelonDonaldTrump#DonaldTrump
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Nick

I bought this #Peanuts 25th anniversary book (1975) from a charity shop on a bit of a whim today. I decided to check if it talked about the introduction of Franklin, and if it did it would be worth buying, and it does.

It turns out to be a really lovely and insightful book. Here’s Schulz talking about the dog who was the basis for Snoopy and how he got his name, with a couple of photos

My mother also encouraged me in my drawing but, sadly, never lived to see any of my work published. She died a long, lingering death from cancer, when I was twenty, and it was a loss from which I sometimes believe I never recovered. Today it is a source of astonishment to me that I am older than she was when she died, and realizing this saddens me even more. When I was thirteen, we were given a black-and-white dog who turned out to be the forerunner of Snoopy. He was a mixed breed and slightly larger than the beagle Snoopy is supposed to be. He probably had a little pointer in him and some other kind of hound, but he was a wild creature; I don't believe he was ever completely tamed. He had a "vocabulary" of understanding of approximately fifty words, and he loved to ride in the car. He waited all day for my dad to come home from the barbershop, and on Saturday evenings, just before 9:00, he always put his paws on my dad's chair to let him know it was time to get in the car and make the short drive up to the store to buy those newspapers. When I decided to put a dog in Peanuts, I used the general appearance of Spike, with similar markings. I had decided that the dog in the strip was to be named Sniffy, until one day, just before the strip was actually to be published, I was walking past a newsstand and glanced down at the rows of comic magazines. There I saw one about a dog named Sniffy, so I had to go back to my room and think of another name. Fortunately, before I even
The image features two black-and-white photographs. The top photo shows a small dog with a black and white coat standing on the ground near a building. The bottom photo depicts a person with short hair, wearing a light shirt and seated on the grass,
Cover of "Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others" by Charles M. Schulz. Features iconic characters from the "Peanuts" comic strip, including Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Linus, along
got home, I recalled my mother once saying that if we ever had another dog, we should name him Snoopy. Not long ago I was looking through The Art of Walt Disney, a beautiful book, and there was a list of names that had been considered for The Seven Dwarfs. Lo and behold, one of the names that had been considered, but turned down, was Snoopy.
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