On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:45:20 -0800 (PST), Nanzi
wrote:

On Feb 24, 9:36*am, (EVP MAN) wrote:
I've also thought about this. *The tobacco I'll be growing is a big
beautiful plant with lush green leaves and beautiful flowers. *I could
place a few at the end of my garden for decorative purposes and also as
a conservation piece. *I don't think many folks here in the north east
ever even saw a tobacco plant let alone one in bloom. *Tobacco seeds are
very tiny, about as fine as ground pepper so I'm told. *Perhaps I could
then allow my plants to go to seed and then harvest just the seeds.
From my understanding, *each pod contains about 100 seeds. *That's a lot
of seeds from a few plants! *The seeds could then be used as a barter
item in a future economy that seems to be getting worse with each
passing week month and year. *There are a lot of tobacco users out there
who can't buy their tobacco products when they don't have jobs. *Smoke
some, *perhaps. *Harvest seed to barter, *perhaps. *Seems to me that
this plant could have lot's of possibilities now and in the future.

Rich

Haven't you ever seen all the covered tobacco fields in CT? I worked
in them one summer as a kid, Miles & miles of gauze tents. They put
them in barns with slats in the sides that they could open, but I dont
know when or why they were opened. Tied in bundles, actually sewn onto
lathes, and hung.
Maybe some research could tell you what their method is. Each plant is
tied to an overhead wire running the length iof the row. Sometimes we
coulodn't see the end of the row til we were halfway down it. as the
plant grows we went down the rows twisting the string in between the
leaves to keep them friom breaking. falling over in the wind. They
were used mainly as cigar wrappers.
Good luck, and btw I think it is legal to grow a certain amount of
tobacco for personal use.
Nan in DE

I don't know why any intelligent person would want to grow tobacco but
it's done all the time.
http://www.growtobacco.net/