It is mown. I don't believe there is a tall type. Mine varies in hieght depending on age, mowing and light. In darker spots, where I do not mow and it can climb a bit, it gets taller.
Thanks for the video. After perennial peanut gets pretty well established and it is fairly thick without bare spots, how many lawn mowings, if any, per year are typically needed to keep the weeds under control? I'm in zone 10a in Florida quite close to 10b, which is pretty similar to a lot of Hawaii. I have a lawn that I only mow about 12 to 15 times a year, and I'd only switch to something like perennial peanut if it means I can either get rid of my lawn mower, or can just pay someone to mow 2 or 3 times per year.
I do not believe i could answer this. It really depends on the type of weeds you have and how peanut grows in your area. The best answer I can offer is mow often enough so weeds do not seed or crowd out the peanut. I mow mine but have never counted the frequency. I mow when it looks messy.
I'm planning to replace my front- and backyard lawns with perennial peanut. The front is a grass lawn, and the back is being ran over with basket grass. What process do you suggest I should take? Should I grow the perennial peanuts in-door, then dig a small patch at a time outside when I want to plant them? (I'm not very familiar with gardening/yardwork)
Perennial peanut can be grow in zones 8B to 11. Check your USDA zone before getting started. I suggest fallow cultivation through at least one rainy season. This will clean up the area of competition. Depending on weather it can be planted from rooted plugs, bare root cuttings or seeds. I prefer to root the cutting first.
I live on the St. Johns RIver in North Florida (Jacksonville) and the slope from the edge of my yard to the river is very steep only dropping about 20 feet in a very short distance. The previous owner put down concrete on quite a bit of this slope but was wondering if I put a raised bed near the top edge of this slope will the perennial peanut plant grow over the concrete. If not any ideas on what i can put that grows on the surface once I plant it inside this raised box. Thanks
The perennial peanut would prefer to root as it spreads. On concrete it will probably burn out part way down. I would consider a vine instead. Star Jasmine aka Trachelospermum jasminoides or Honey suckle, Lonicera japonica would probably work better. The Cat Claw vine will grab the concrete, Dolichandra unguis-cati.
Thanks for the video! This came on my radar a short time ago and I’ve been curious about it’s application in pasture here in Louisiana. Not many warm season perennial legumes that can make it here. Any idea if it would come back in the spring after a killing frost or two in the winter?
I don't believe the plant is very frost tolerant. It is rated zones 8b to 11. The plant does produce seed that would come back up after a freeze. It appears to make good hay though. Perennial peanut is a high-quality persistent tropical forage legume which can be grazed or fed to horses, dairy and beef cattle, hogs, goats, sheep and rabbits. It can be stored as dry hay or silage and is a substitute for alfalfa.
Great info! I've been planting Perennial peanut in my yard but I'm having problems with it invading garden beds and other areas. The roots can grow very long under the landscape fabric and rocks to reach it's preferred area. I'm thinking on adding and edging to avoid this, do you know how deep the root system goes? Or how deep should I go with an edging?
The roots do run very deep. The root doesn't form away from the surface spread though. The control is actually at the surface. Triming the surface spread will stop the issue as long as you don't wait until it has spread into other areas. The peanut will just laugh at you, crawl right over the edger and make roots on the other side.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks much for tesponding! Unfortunately that's not the case with mine, they went underneath the barrier, landscape fabric and rocks, and came back up about 3 feet away. :( I hope they don't ruin my septic system. I've read before they can be planted above the drainfield, now I'm worrued. I appreciate your feedback.
@@sylviagm Under or over the process is identical. The root system does not spread were the vine isn't present. Control the surface growth and the underground growth doesn't form.
I want to grow this on a pretty steep hill which is pretty weedy. We put ground cloth down to kill the weeds and cut holes into them and started planting this peanut grass. Stopped about a quarter way because we aren't sure if this will work. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I find no advantage to using a weed block. The weeds just come up on top the barrier in time. I use fallow cultivation at times to clean up the space before planting peanut. Afterwards I hand weed and mow short. The best I have seen is at a friends place where they piled wood chips, planted into the chips and hand weeded until the peanut spread.
I see no reason it can't be grown under rubber trees. Ground covers take up some of the space that weeds would use but they do no eliminate them. They are used to hold soil and fix nitrogen. If it is mown then weeds taller than peanut eventually succumb.
Watched all your peanut vids. Excellent for a beginner like me. Thanks for taking the time to share. Question? How well does this peanut do versus pua hilahila? I have a cinder lot and I am about to drop 50/50 cinder soil mix (ainaloa). The sleeping grass has already established itself in less than a year. Im trying not to use poison.
Just because others use herbicide that doesn't mean it is the only way. It's just the easy way out. Hand pulling, cultivation, flame cultivation, organic herbicides and impervious mulches all work well too. I generally never pull Sleepy grass because of the horrible spines. First and last time I tried that I came back bloody. Use a strap hoe for cultivation. Industrial strength vinegar works. I generally use a 400,000 Btu propane flamer on sleepy grass. This way the spines burn off. Comparing Sleepy grass and peanut isn't really do able. One is a agricultural ground cover the other a weed.
No, that video would be less than 30 seconds long. Take pieces of the plant and bury the stems and roots under the soil. Sometimes just dropping them on the ground works but if it is hot and dry you need to cover the stems. Leaves should be above the soil. There is no special method for propagating this plant. Almost any method would work. Aloha
No. The idea that ground covers can compete with existing vegetation is s myth. To get a ground cover going the original vegetation has to be removed and kept out. The peanut will exist with low growing weeds if it is mown short. With mowing taller plants usually pass away eventually.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 if I clean the land bare and plant the peanut and get it going and clean it for weeds and grass for a while will it prevent grass from starting up or will be continuous work?
@@andrewbrowne4050 Any perennial plant roots left in the ground will come back after planting. All seeds left in the ground will germinate after planting. Fallow cultivation by machine, hand, flame or herbicide are recommended before planting. My perennial peanut get mown. This limits the weeds that can survive. Mowing limits the weeds to a few creepers like Toronia and Crab grass. I have a friend in Hilo who has thousands of square feed of peanut. His is very clean of weeds but he has a crew that picks them out as fast as they arise.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 ahh ok. Thanks. I have several big patches that are about a year old and starting to get super dense. Been weeding it. Just wondering if the peanut starts to choke out most other plants of need to continuously garde. Thanks for the info and thanks for the videos
@@andrewbrowne4050 It is a miss conception that ground covers choke out weeds. It is the other way around, weeds choke out ground covers. Short mowing will keep the peanut fairly clean. Weeds are only choked by plants that are taller than the weed. A ground cover does seem to resist new seeds that are airborne. The seeds bounce over the foliage in the breeze.
What is your opinion on using sphagneticola trilobata (Singapore daisy)? Maybe it's prohibited in HI. In Tarapoto, Peru I've seen it used for the planted areas in roundabouts. It doesn't have the advantage of being an N-Fixer, but it sounds very vigorous nonetheless
I don't believe the plant is banned but it is on several lists of weedy invasive species. I sometimes use aggressive plants like Passion vines for food but I never plant invasive species. Hawaii already has more of those than the poor Island can stand.
Hi thanks so much for your video! This is what I was looking for that nobody else care to share. Would you be kind enough to list all the plants that do well and don't do well with it in your experience? Also since it fix nitrogen, did you ever see any improvement in your corn, tomatoes, peppers etc? Thank you again! This saved me a lot of time trialling by myself.
If you are asking to list the plants that thrive or suffer here the list is enormous and too big for this format. If you mean nitrogen fixing plants or ground covers the list shrinks some. The question has to be very specific otherwise it is unmanagabley broad.
Sorry for not being clear. I meant, plants (specifically vegetable, common garden crops) that DO WELL or NOT with the PERENNIAL PEANUT. I plan to use Perennial Peanut for companion planting in my garden but can't find enough info about Perennial Peanut companion planting. I want to reduce time trial-and-error. From your video I got: -Corn and tomatoes do well. -Garlic not so well. Any other you can add? Any info is really appreciated!
No, I do not water. We get 120 inches of rain a year here. The water I have is not fluoridated. I watered in California and in Illinois with fluoridated water on legumes and there is no effect. Fluoride at the amounts in drinking water would have zero effects. Fluoride in water would only be considered a problem in potted plants where it could build up. It is also possible when watering with fluoridated water in a desert with clay subsoil problems might arise.
Not sure where your area is but in Puna the plant is flexible to sun or shade. If you are in Puna and growing on Pahoehoe lava perhaps it is burning out in sun for lack of moisture. Pahoehoe is hard.
Currently I am sold out but I would be glad to put up some fresh flats for you. It would take about 3 to 4 weeks if you order them. How many do you need? You can contact me at 808 968-6148
You have a good question and I have no good answer. I never saw the plant before moving to Hawaii. It won't take frost and it died back during a 3 year drought here in Puna so it like moisture. I am sure it won't grow with out irrigation. In California I used alfalfa around trees and New Zealand White clover between vegetables. They are better in dry weather.
I have heard that stuff is a sought after ground cover over there...I am hoping it does ok at lower elevations...like 90’ ...in classic Puna rocky soil...
It will grow on gravel or lava. The first place i ever saw the plant was growing at the Maku'u market around the parking lot. That's higher than 90 feet but not much.
I have been seeing how others are using perennial peanut. I have 2 types of pinto and eco turf which is rhizobial. I put pinto in shade and mixed eco turf with sunshine mimosa. So far sunshine mimosa and eco turf seem to partner well.
Since you are in Kona I doubt you want to drive over here to get some. They treat the stuff like it is gold in the market place. It is seldom seem but when it does show up I feel the price is way too high. I finally broke down and spent the money on a 4"pot of the stuff. That was 12 years ago and now the stuff has expanded to large area of my garden and landscape. I used to grow full flat of the stuff for sale. I haven't planted any lately but I could.
GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks. I did get some from Lowe’s late fall and it has done quite well, but I need to cover additional SF on a slope on my property. I liked being able to plant individual small containers in various locations. Not sure where u are, but if the deal were good enough I would be willing to drive. Last fall I planted 2 flats of small containers. I don’t remember how many containers each flat had. Thanks again. Let me know if you might have some for sale in the future. Mahalo!
@@kenbrown4390 My favorite way to grow this plant in the nursery is to us the standard undivided mud flat that is generally used in ground cover production. I sell them for $20 each. Usually have about 50 plants in them. I can grow the stuff in individual pots but the price goes up. In a 4"pot the plant would be $4 each.
GreenGardenGuy1 sorry to keep asking questions, but what is the best way to divide an undivided flat? I tried that once before and I confess I made a mess of it, and did not seem to get the quantity of plantings or coverage I was hoping for. I am serious about getting more plants. Mahalo.
@@kenbrown4390 In the ground cover industry undivided flats are the standard. There are also 6 pack ground cover growers but commercial planters use the full flat. All plants used as ground covers are very durable. The plants are either lifted from the flats and shaken apart or they are cut with a knife like a pan of brownies. After I got the original pot spreading I never bothered to root cuttings when expanding the planting. I would just pull up some peanut from an area where it was thriving and move it to the new area. This is a very tough plant that does not require much care from humans. I would also sell bare root cuttings of peanut. It will transplant just as well that way too.
I don't know if you have the common lawn weeds but creeping Charlie or [creeping jenny] is a great groundcover it will even choke out a thick Midwest lawn
Sorry but i never introduce invasive species to my landscape, nature does enough of that on it's own. Glechoma hederacea is one of the more vile and hard to kill weeds on earth. Perennial peanut is easy to kill if you don't want it with flamers, tillage or herbicides.
GreenGardenGuy1 oh no that's not what I'm saying. I met if you have it there on the island already. Cause it is considered a noxious weed it spreads like a slow burning fire slow but steady
Thanks for great information and ideas for weed control and uses of perennial peanut. The flowers are edible, nice on salads fresh like most other edible flowers.
Flowers from most of our common plants are edible. The Feijoa sellowiana, or Pineapple guava the the best tasting flowers on earth. The petals can be eaten without affecting the crop. If you are a flower eater seek it out.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thanks! I live in northwest Florida USA USDA zone 8b so it should grow here. I am envious of your weather in Hawaii. I've never visited there but maybe one day I will and will have to check out the donuts in Mt View! I bet the coffee varieties there are amazing in your area. I love dark roasted coffee straight just coffee, no additives to spoil the wonderful taste.
@@Maggie-Gardener-Maker My favorite coffee is from Kau. They produce a variety with the cherry dried on the bean that is fractured off mechanically instead of washed off as they do in Africa. Best tasting coffee in Hawaii. Kau Coffee Company. They mail order.
So many weeds! Is fall a good time to mow? I'm in Central Florida and growing perennial peanut. Weeds palooza here. I'm pulling best I can...
If you mow peanut, mow high, 4" plus. Short mowing kills the stuff.
along the highway am I seeing a shorter variety, or was it just mown? Mine is 8-10" tall
It is mown. I don't believe there is a tall type. Mine varies in hieght depending on age, mowing and light. In darker spots, where I do not mow and it can climb a bit, it gets taller.
Thanks for the video. After perennial peanut gets pretty well established and it is fairly thick without bare spots, how many lawn mowings, if any, per year are typically needed to keep the weeds under control? I'm in zone 10a in Florida quite close to 10b, which is pretty similar to a lot of Hawaii. I have a lawn that I only mow about 12 to 15 times a year, and I'd only switch to something like perennial peanut if it means I can either get rid of my lawn mower, or can just pay someone to mow 2 or 3 times per year.
I do not believe i could answer this. It really depends on the type of weeds you have and how peanut grows in your area. The best answer I can offer is mow often enough so weeds do not seed or crowd out the peanut. I mow mine but have never counted the frequency. I mow when it looks messy.
I have a large lot under a monkeypod tree. How well does it grow in shade?
It's pretty good if the shade isn't too dark.
I'm planning to replace my front- and backyard lawns with perennial peanut. The front is a grass lawn, and the back is being ran over with basket grass. What process do you suggest I should take? Should I grow the perennial peanuts in-door, then dig a small patch at a time outside when I want to plant them? (I'm not very familiar with gardening/yardwork)
Perennial peanut can be grow in zones 8B to 11. Check your USDA zone before getting started. I suggest fallow cultivation through at least one rainy season. This will clean up the area of competition. Depending on weather it can be planted from rooted plugs, bare root cuttings or seeds. I prefer to root the cutting first.
I live on the St. Johns RIver in North Florida (Jacksonville) and the slope from the edge of my yard to the river is very steep only dropping about 20 feet in a very short distance. The previous owner put down concrete on quite a bit of this slope but was wondering if I put a raised bed near the top edge of this slope will the perennial peanut plant grow over the concrete. If not any ideas on what i can put that grows on the surface once I plant it inside this raised box. Thanks
The perennial peanut would prefer to root as it spreads. On concrete it will probably burn out part way down. I would consider a vine instead. Star Jasmine aka Trachelospermum jasminoides or Honey suckle, Lonicera japonica would probably work better. The Cat Claw vine will grab the concrete, Dolichandra unguis-cati.
Thanks for the info Bill!
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video! This came on my radar a short time ago and I’ve been curious about it’s application in pasture here in Louisiana. Not many warm season perennial legumes that can make it here. Any idea if it would come back in the spring after a killing frost or two in the winter?
I don't believe the plant is very frost tolerant. It is rated zones 8b to 11. The plant does produce seed that would come back up after a freeze. It appears to make good hay though. Perennial peanut is a high-quality persistent tropical forage legume which can be grazed or fed to horses, dairy and beef cattle, hogs, goats, sheep and rabbits. It can be stored as dry hay or silage and is a substitute for alfalfa.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 awesome! Thanks for the info!
@@cullenhopkins6351 Sure thing
Great info! I've been planting Perennial peanut in my yard but I'm having problems with it invading garden beds and other areas. The roots can grow very long under the landscape fabric and rocks to reach it's preferred area. I'm thinking on adding and edging to avoid this, do you know how deep the root system goes? Or how deep should I go with an edging?
The roots do run very deep. The root doesn't form away from the surface spread though. The control is actually at the surface. Triming the surface spread will stop the issue as long as you don't wait until it has spread into other areas. The peanut will just laugh at you, crawl right over the edger and make roots on the other side.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks much for tesponding!
Unfortunately that's not the case with mine, they went underneath the barrier, landscape fabric and rocks, and came back up about 3 feet away. :(
I hope they don't ruin my septic system. I've read before they can be planted above the drainfield, now I'm worrued.
I appreciate your feedback.
@@sylviagm Under or over the process is identical. The root system does not spread were the vine isn't present. Control the surface growth and the underground growth doesn't form.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I so wish this was the real thing here! I may try an 8 inch deep barrier.
@@sylviagm Good luck.
I want to grow this on a pretty steep hill which is pretty weedy. We put ground cloth down to kill the weeds and cut holes into them and started planting this peanut grass. Stopped about a quarter way because we aren't sure if this will work. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I find no advantage to using a weed block. The weeds just come up on top the barrier in time. I use fallow cultivation at times to clean up the space before planting peanut. Afterwards I hand weed and mow short. The best I have seen is at a friends place where they piled wood chips, planted into the chips and hand weeded until the peanut spread.
Can it be used in plantations (rubber plantation) as ground cover to eliminate weeds.
I see no reason it can't be grown under rubber trees. Ground covers take up some of the space that weeds would use but they do no eliminate them. They are used to hold soil and fix nitrogen. If it is mown then weeds taller than peanut eventually succumb.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you, for the insight
Watched all your peanut vids. Excellent for a beginner like me. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Question?
How well does this peanut do versus pua hilahila? I have a cinder lot and I am about to drop 50/50 cinder soil mix (ainaloa). The sleeping grass has already established itself in less than a year. Im trying not to use poison.
Just because others use herbicide that doesn't mean it is the only way. It's just the easy way out. Hand pulling, cultivation, flame cultivation, organic herbicides and impervious mulches all work well too. I generally never pull Sleepy grass because of the horrible spines. First and last time I tried that I came back bloody. Use a strap hoe for cultivation. Industrial strength vinegar works. I generally use a 400,000 Btu propane flamer on sleepy grass. This way the spines burn off. Comparing Sleepy grass and peanut isn't really do able. One is a agricultural ground cover the other a weed.
@@GreenGardenGuy1
Big mahalo for the info. I will look into all of your suggestions. What are your nursery hours for visiting?
@@hgkal808 9 to 4 Seven days. As long as the gate is open come on in. At noon you will usually find me eating lunch.
@@GreenGardenGuy1
Mahalo. I'll be stopping by.
do you have another video to show exactly how you propigate the perennial peanut?
No, that video would be less than 30 seconds long. Take pieces of the plant and bury the stems and roots under the soil. Sometimes just dropping them on the ground works but if it is hot and dry you need to cover the stems. Leaves should be above the soil. There is no special method for propagating this plant. Almost any method would work. Aloha
Will it complete with grass?
No. The idea that ground covers can compete with existing vegetation is s myth. To get a ground cover going the original vegetation has to be removed and kept out. The peanut will exist with low growing weeds if it is mown short. With mowing taller plants usually pass away eventually.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 if I clean the land bare and plant the peanut and get it going and clean it for weeds and grass for a while will it prevent grass from starting up or will be continuous work?
@@andrewbrowne4050 Any perennial plant roots left in the ground will come back after planting. All seeds left in the ground will germinate after planting. Fallow cultivation by machine, hand, flame or herbicide are recommended before planting. My perennial peanut get mown. This limits the weeds that can survive. Mowing limits the weeds to a few creepers like Toronia and Crab grass. I have a friend in Hilo who has thousands of square feed of peanut. His is very clean of weeds but he has a crew that picks them out as fast as they arise.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 ahh ok. Thanks. I have several big patches that are about a year old and starting to get super dense. Been weeding it. Just wondering if the peanut starts to choke out most other plants of need to continuously garde. Thanks for the info and thanks for the videos
@@andrewbrowne4050 It is a miss conception that ground covers choke out weeds. It is the other way around, weeds choke out ground covers. Short mowing will keep the peanut fairly clean. Weeds are only choked by plants that are taller than the weed. A ground cover does seem to resist new seeds that are airborne. The seeds bounce over the foliage in the breeze.
Are you still selling flats of the perennial peanut? Thanks
I haven't propagated any lately. I could do that as a custom grow if you need a bunch. Otherwise I have bareroot cuttings available.
What is your opinion on using sphagneticola trilobata (Singapore daisy)? Maybe it's prohibited in HI. In Tarapoto, Peru I've seen it used for the planted areas in roundabouts. It doesn't have the advantage of being an N-Fixer, but it sounds very vigorous nonetheless
I don't believe the plant is banned but it is on several lists of weedy invasive species. I sometimes use aggressive plants like Passion vines for food but I never plant invasive species. Hawaii already has more of those than the poor Island can stand.
Do bees like it? I'm looking at using this stuff as a sod/turf replacement.
It has the closed flowers that bees have trouble entering. I suspect they might try but it isn't a nectar plant.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 appreciate the response!
@@easyemu1511 You're welcome.
Hi thanks so much for your video! This is what I was looking for that nobody else care to share.
Would you be kind enough to list all the plants that do well and don't do well with it in your experience?
Also since it fix nitrogen, did you ever see any improvement in your corn, tomatoes, peppers etc?
Thank you again! This saved me a lot of time trialling by myself.
If you are asking to list the plants that thrive or suffer here the list is enormous and too big for this format. If you mean nitrogen fixing plants or ground covers the list shrinks some. The question has to be very specific otherwise it is unmanagabley broad.
Sorry for not being clear.
I meant, plants (specifically vegetable, common garden crops) that DO WELL or NOT with the PERENNIAL PEANUT.
I plan to use Perennial Peanut for companion planting in my garden but can't find enough info about Perennial Peanut companion planting. I want to reduce time trial-and-error.
From your video I got:
-Corn and tomatoes do well.
-Garlic not so well.
Any other you can add?
Any info is really appreciated!
Do you water them with fluoridated water? If so, does that affect the bacteria on the roots?
No, I do not water. We get 120 inches of rain a year here. The water I have is not fluoridated. I watered in California and in Illinois with fluoridated water on legumes and there is no effect. Fluoride at the amounts in drinking water would have zero effects. Fluoride in water would only be considered a problem in potted plants where it could build up. It is also possible when watering with fluoridated water in a desert with clay subsoil problems might arise.
Where can I buy perennial peanut plants to plant as my law .
I can provide cuttings but I don't actually grow plugs. I heard seed can be found at Garden exchange in Hilo.
i have some patches of that in my area but they seem to stay in the shade, not so much out under the strong sun.
Not sure where your area is but in Puna the plant is flexible to sun or shade. If you are in Puna and growing on Pahoehoe lava perhaps it is burning out in sun for lack of moisture. Pahoehoe is hard.
Great cover crop for fixing nitrogen in the soil. Trimming it back seems like it's pretty easy to add to a compost since is grows back so nicely.
It is a great plant. The only thing about it is the plants are usually pretty expensive so buy a few and then grow your own.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 good advice propagation is the true way of life. One seed to rule them all lmao.
Aloha Bill~ I live on the East side too. Do you have any perennial peanut flats for sale at this time? (if so, how can I
contact you? Mahalo!
Currently I am sold out but I would be glad to put up some fresh flats for you. It would take about 3 to 4 weeks if you order them. How many do you need? You can contact me at 808 968-6148
Will this grow up at the top of HOVE?
I've never been there but most likely it will as long as frost doesn't form.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Elevation is like 4 to 5 thousand feet you know anyone selling and delivering mulch cheap like 15 or more cubic yards of it 🤔
@@mistashortstroke443 Nope, I'm on soil, we grow our own mulch as chop and drop.
Will perennial peanut work in dry inland s. California?
You have a good question and I have no good answer. I never saw the plant before moving to Hawaii. It won't take frost and it died back during a 3 year drought here in Puna so it like moisture. I am sure it won't grow with out irrigation. In California I used alfalfa around trees and New Zealand White clover between vegetables. They are better in dry weather.
ornamenatal or perennial peanut is popular in Florida. ty for the video!
Any update to this? I'm going to try it soon in southern California.
I have heard that stuff is a sought after ground cover over there...I am hoping it does ok at lower elevations...like 90’ ...in classic Puna rocky soil...
It will grow on gravel or lava. The first place i ever saw the plant was growing at the Maku'u market around the parking lot. That's higher than 90 feet but not much.
I have been seeing how others are using perennial peanut. I have 2 types of pinto and eco turf which is rhizobial. I put pinto in shade and mixed eco turf with sunshine mimosa. So far sunshine mimosa and eco turf seem to partner well.
I had not seen this Mimosa here. The ones we have all contain a wicked thorn. I'll have to keep my eyes open for this thornless form.
Where can I buy perennial peanut on the Big Island? I live in Kailua Kona. Thank You
Since you are in Kona I doubt you want to drive over here to get some. They treat the stuff like it is gold in the market place. It is seldom seem but when it does show up I feel the price is way too high. I finally broke down and spent the money on a 4"pot of the stuff. That was 12 years ago and now the stuff has expanded to large area of my garden and landscape. I used to grow full flat of the stuff for sale. I haven't planted any lately but I could.
GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks. I did get some from Lowe’s late fall and it has done quite well, but I need to cover additional SF on a slope on my property. I liked being able to plant individual small containers in various locations. Not sure where u are, but if the deal were good enough I would be willing to drive. Last fall I planted 2 flats of small containers. I don’t remember how many containers each flat had. Thanks again. Let me know if you might have some for sale in the future. Mahalo!
@@kenbrown4390 My favorite way to grow this plant in the nursery is to us the standard undivided mud flat that is generally used in ground cover production. I sell them for $20 each. Usually have about 50 plants in them. I can grow the stuff in individual pots but the price goes up. In a 4"pot the plant would be $4 each.
GreenGardenGuy1 sorry to keep asking questions, but what is the best way to divide an undivided flat? I tried that once before and I confess I made a mess of it, and did not seem to get the quantity of plantings or coverage I was hoping for. I am serious about getting more plants. Mahalo.
@@kenbrown4390 In the ground cover industry undivided flats are the standard. There are also 6 pack ground cover growers but commercial planters use the full flat. All plants used as ground covers are very durable. The plants are either lifted from the flats and shaken apart or they are cut with a knife like a pan of brownies. After I got the original pot spreading I never bothered to root cuttings when expanding the planting. I would just pull up some peanut from an area where it was thriving and move it to the new area. This is a very tough plant that does not require much care from humans. I would also sell bare root cuttings of peanut. It will transplant just as well that way too.
I don't know if you have the common lawn weeds but creeping Charlie or [creeping jenny] is a great groundcover it will even choke out a thick Midwest lawn
Sorry but i never introduce invasive species to my landscape, nature does enough of that on it's own. Glechoma hederacea is one of the more vile and hard to kill weeds on earth. Perennial peanut is easy to kill if you don't want it with flamers, tillage or herbicides.
GreenGardenGuy1 oh no that's not what I'm saying. I met if you have it there on the island already. Cause it is considered a noxious weed it spreads like a slow burning fire slow but steady
I see. Lucky for me I have not seen this weed here but it is likely someplace on the Island. We had it in California and it was a pain.
I have creeping charlie in fl and it just stays on one fence post so I dont bother it.
Thanks for great information and ideas for weed control and uses of perennial peanut. The flowers are edible, nice on salads fresh like most other edible flowers.
Flowers from most of our common plants are edible. The Feijoa sellowiana, or Pineapple guava the the best tasting flowers on earth. The petals can be eaten without affecting the crop. If you are a flower eater seek it out.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thanks! I live in northwest Florida USA USDA zone 8b so it should grow here. I am envious of your weather in Hawaii. I've never visited there but maybe one day I will and will have to check out the donuts in Mt View! I bet the coffee varieties there are amazing in your area. I love dark roasted coffee straight just coffee, no additives to spoil the wonderful taste.
@@Maggie-Gardener-Maker My favorite coffee is from Kau. They produce a variety with the cherry dried on the bean that is fractured off mechanically instead of washed off as they do in Africa. Best tasting coffee in Hawaii. Kau Coffee Company. They mail order.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 cool, thanks
@@Maggie-Gardener-Maker Aloha
Can i grass cut this
Yes, you can mow peanut.