Careful, Cindy, you might have to start drinking mint juleps all day, while you sit on the verandah twirling your parasol. Have you noticed any cotton plants popping up next to it?

Shauna

LOL that is pretty cool! The local squirrels must be taking up gardening.

I don't think we have a long enough season for it to make any actual peanuts, but peanut plants are really cool how they bury their own peanuts after fertilization. They don't start off underground. It's cool.

Do you feed your Blue Jays whole peanuts in the winter?

If you do, they like to hide their food. I find peanut sprouts all the time in the strangest places.

Sharon

Shauna, no cotton plants yet and I've never had a mint julep before but it does sound wonderfully relaxing, lol. Between working lots of extra time and all the renos we're doing I could use the break. Hmmmm...no verandah either - I guess the patio will have to do;)

Gil, I already checked it out and they need 120-150 growing days so I think I'm out of luck, lol. It is very cool how they grow. I always thought they just grew like potatoes, had no idea that they started above ground and dug themselves down. Learn somethin' new everyday!

Sharon, I didn't know that Blue jays did that! Here I was blaming it all on the squirrels:) I've found peanuts stashed all over the yard before, but I've never seen one actually sprout.

Cindy