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If food and mystery aren't enough, the peanuts also help Improve the soil by fixing nitrogen with its root nodules The green, clover-like leaves can be dug into the soil as a green manure or added to the compost pile.

First, a word of caution: Some people have nut alter gies, and peanut plants and the forming crop can cause allergic reactions. Before taking garden visitors on a tour of your mysterious peanut plants, warn those that are allergic to nuts that they may want to view the plants and harvested crop from a safe distance.

Planting peanuts takes three things: a supply of seed nuts, four months of warm sunny weather and loose soil.

Finding peanuts to plant that will germinate will mean foregoing buying a bag off the grocer's shelf. Those storeshelf nuts have been dried and roasted and will not germinate.

To find viable seed, check out seed catalogs such as Gurneys (www.Gurneys.com) or Park Seeds (www.park seed.com) or local farmers' cooperatives.

The most common peanut seed available for gardeners is

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