At the end of summer, the peanut bushes begin to dry out the leaves, turning yellow. This means that the plant planted all the necessary crops from the outside and now it will only increase the beans that are under the ground. But the dried up bushes do not mean at all that the time has come when it's time to collect peanuts. Just need to change the care of plants a little.
Terms of ripening peanuts
Peanut continues to ripen a few more months, until the first frost. During this period you need to cut watering and stop feeding. In fact, you're just waiting for the peanuts to ripen.
As soon as the temperature on the street drops to a small minus, the process of vegetation of the plant ends. This is the very moment when you need to dig out peanuts.
When you are determined that you will dig peanuts, you need to start from the front of the bed. Running the shovel into the ground, hold the bush by hand, make a digging and take out the plant along with the roots. The earth after this should be gently shaken and put the bush on one side of the bed. In the same way, continue digging the peanuts and folding the root to the root.
The collected peanuts should be laid as if with sheaves and suspended with roots in a dry, ventilated room for two weeks to ripen. Next, you need to cut the beans and rinse them from the ground. And after this, it is necessary to dry beans by all means, so that they do not forbid and sprout. Ideally suited for such purposes is drying for fruits and vegetables. As an alternative, you can dry them in the oven, spreading evenly on a baking sheet.
Well-dried peanut beans should be easy to crack and crunch, and the taste of the grains should become characteristic. The very grain with a slight pressure should easily break up into 2 halves.
When you make sure that the peanuts are well dried, you can completely clean it from the top shell, or leave it as it is. Keep the beans in a dry place in bags or tempered glass jars with tight lids.