vorno
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Good day everyone,
I've recently sown my first ever tobacco seeds!
In the picture are 4 varieties:
On the topic of seed raising mix - we haven't had much luck with the various mixes that we have purchased to-date (such as seedlings coming up with yellow leaves) so in the future I'm planning on developing my own seed mix from this given example.
My next step is preparing a garden bed, which is currently over-run by weeds & lots of Kikuyu grass.
I've started by covering the weeds & grass with cardboard.
This will allow the underlying grass to die and help prevent weeds from popping through easily.
My next step will be getting a trailer load of compost, laying it over the top of the cardboard and looking at what I should be combining with the compost to make it better for the Tobacco.
We have sheep and chickens, so I could easily mix it in with a combination of manure and maybe some organic debris, untreated pine shavings (not sure if it's suitable) and our own compost pile (mostly made up of degraded food scraps).
With regards to soil-nutrition, I'm not sure what I'll be adding to the compost as of yet, but have started to look into things like creating calcium from egg shells and the like.
I'll be updating this post / thread with my progress as I go.
I've recently sown my first ever tobacco seeds!
In the picture are 4 varieties:
- Black Mammoth (wrapper / binder) - took an extra couple of days to sprout over the other varieties.
- Cuban Piloto Cubano (filler)
- Cuban Hubano 2000 (filler)
- Cuban Corojo 99 (wrapper / binder)
On the topic of seed raising mix - we haven't had much luck with the various mixes that we have purchased to-date (such as seedlings coming up with yellow leaves) so in the future I'm planning on developing my own seed mix from this given example.
My next step is preparing a garden bed, which is currently over-run by weeds & lots of Kikuyu grass.
I've started by covering the weeds & grass with cardboard.
This will allow the underlying grass to die and help prevent weeds from popping through easily.
My next step will be getting a trailer load of compost, laying it over the top of the cardboard and looking at what I should be combining with the compost to make it better for the Tobacco.
We have sheep and chickens, so I could easily mix it in with a combination of manure and maybe some organic debris, untreated pine shavings (not sure if it's suitable) and our own compost pile (mostly made up of degraded food scraps).
With regards to soil-nutrition, I'm not sure what I'll be adding to the compost as of yet, but have started to look into things like creating calcium from egg shells and the like.
I'll be updating this post / thread with my progress as I go.