Can Peanuts plants restore nutrience within the soil?
Thank George Washington Carver. He is the one who realized that peanuts, like other legumes, have nitrogen-fixing bacteria on their roots and could replenish the soil depleted by years of growing nothing but cotton. The nitrogen, incidently comes from the air, where it is plentiful but unavailable to the plants. In order to make planting peanuts economically feasible, Carver developed a large number of products that could be made from them. Think of him the next time you have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. However, peanuts only take care of one problem. If the soil is deficient in another nutrient, in organic matter, or water, you have to fight those problems; all the nitrogen in the world won’t help if another factor is the limiting one.
