How to Grow Your Own Tobacco
From Seed to Smoke
| Format: Hardcover, 160 Pages Item: 196631 ISBN: 9781591864882 SpecsIllustrations: 64 b/w photos & 11 illustrations Size: 6 x 9 Weight: 0.813 lb. Published: October 21st 2011 DC: AE List Price: $22.99 $17.24All discounts based on list price. No trade discounts available from sale price. In Stock |
How to Grow Your Own Tobacco covers everything you need to know to plant, harvest, and cure your own tobacco including troubleshooting for pests and diseases. Author and horticulturist Ray French summarizes the history of growing tobacco and then explains how age-old growing practices have now become a part of the easy, sustainable, organic methods for the home gardener. Ray also includes information on varieties and grades of tobacco, seed starting techniques, and suggestions for growing in the ground or in containers, all in this handy guide. |
With a strong history of large scale farming on both sides of the family, Ray French graduated with a degree in Agriculture specializing in Nursery Crop Production and Botany from Auburn University. Upon graduation, Ray ran some of the largest commercial growers in the country. He is now a consultant for a large home improvement retailer and travels all over the world in search of new plants. Once the potential plants are discovered, he works with growers to produce them and the retailer to market them. Ray has been an integral part of introducing many of the most popular plants in the market today such as the Knockout Rose, Encore Azaleas, and SunPatiens. |