I may have to look into this: http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/ I plan to do some subsistence gardening this spring, may have to plant a few rows of Burley.
Anyone GYO 'baccy?
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Growing tobacco is relatively easy, making it suitable for smoking, not so much. Do you have a plan for the second part?
I thought about growing some, I even started some seeds. Then I got to looking into the curing process and decided to wait until I could devote the time and effort to do it properly. There is a forum just for growing tobacco, I forget the name, but I'm sure you could google it easy enough if you haven't already. I think it would be great to grow and produce your own tobacco, let us know how it works out.
I thought it would be fun to grow my own for pipe tobacco. It's the curing & flavoring process that intimidates me.
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The above link seems like it may have a lot of info, just found it today. I still need to research the drying and curing process though. I have the space to do it in, could build a small tobacco barn if my large greenhouse/gardening shed won't do. Admittedly I have a lot to learn yet. If our forefathers could do it, I suspect I can learn to do it also. Hell. I might start making my own corn whiskey to!
For me, it's not a matter of space, but some suggest at least 2 years of proper aging, up to 7 years. Then add onto that casing/topping the tobacco. The unstable weather we have here would seem to make such a long controlled process very difficult. Nothing would upset me more than to devote years to something, just to have it turn out like crap. I probably feel this way due to a less than stellar attempt at wine making, I wanted to believe it tasted good, but it didn't.
Add me to the list of people who started growing but then realized I couldn't devote the time and energy to curing.
I've thought about it, but the climate in alberta sucks when you don't have access to much land, if I was living in BC I might give it a shot.
