Yes, I am enjoying my 2 months without gardening (although the 60 degree weather started giving me a teeny bit of the gardening bug). Not that I don't love gardening, but it's nice to have a little bit of time to focus on other things.
But I did finally take advantage of a break in the psychotically frigid weather to finish brushing the dirt off the now-dried peanuts and roasting them!
Here's the whole bunch when I harvested them.
And the crop after roasting!
Not the largest abundance, but very decent considering only about 4 of the peanut plants actually "took" in the bed this year.
Just a side note: peanuts are a pain in the patootie to "clean"!
Aside from individually scrubbing each one with a slightly abrasive scrubby, you'll never get all the dirt off...and there was NO way I was individually scrubbing each one!
I would put them bunches at a time into a mesh bag and shake it all around so that they'd help clean the dirt off each other...I also put the scrubby in the bag to help give more abrasion too!
(And then of course the time I didn't have the opening held closed all the way so there went half the crop flinging all over the yard when I started shaking! [sigh] You're welcome, squirrels for whichever ones I missed in my pick-up.)
So after I do the best I can, I just give up and we know not to chew on the shells.
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