What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. I've got a quick one for you today.

Just something interesting I thought you might want to know about.

I think most of you know this, but some of you may not and when I found out for the first time a long time ago,

I was absolutely shocked.

It really did surprise me.

I felt, it was one of those moments where I felt like we were living on an alien planet and every

now and then you come across a plant that makes you think is this Earth or is

this the planet from the movie Avatar or Star Wars or something like that. So this is the humble peanut. As we know, the name

is deceiving. Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes. Most nuts are going to grow on trees.

Pekons, walnuts, these are tree nuts.

Peanuts, not only they are not nuts, they areagooms, but they do not even grow above the ground.

So here's what happens.

When you plant a peanut plant, it grows, like a normal plant grows.

The blossoms come out,

and then what happens is the flowers,

then touch the ground, burrow into the ground, and then the peanuts form underground.

How weird is that? That's crazy. It is absolutely crazy. Now these take a

while to grow. So a good crop of peanuts actually takes 120 to 140 days. It's a long season crop. Not only that, it takes up some space and it's a bit finicky you have to make sure that you actually get it right because you know if it's going to burrow into the ground they need you know the right soil to actually burrow correctly into the ground. They need the right quality

in the soil. They like a calcium-rich, sandy soil. And if we think about how peanuts grow like I just mentioned

of course it makes sense that they want sandy soil because they need loose

friable soil that they can actually plunge those flowers into the ground and form

those peanuts. Now this is a short episode. It's just something I wanted to share with

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