Thread: In the Garden 2022

Here is the main garden patch. To the right, against the back fence, is three rows of tobacco. The back two rows are older, and are Connecticut Shade, Connecticut Broadleaf, and Criollo 98. Then there is a third row to the front, all Habano 2000, just planted out a couple weeks ago. More to the front is Bantam Yellow Sweet Corn, Emerald Spineless Okra, and right underfoot just sprouted up, Bok Choy. Elsewhere I have raised beds with tomatoes which aren't doing so well, jalapenos which gave me quite a few peppers, New Mexico chilis which have only given me two good peppers so far, more okra which has given us a few meals of okra, and a few other things that didn't work out so well. This winter I will haul in some more compost and expand the main garden another 10 feet, doubling it to 20 x 50. Half will be planted in tobacco, half in veggies. The soil on this property sucks so I bring in pickup truck loads of garden soil and shovel it right on top. I also built two walled raised beds but they drain so well that plants in them are always thirsty if we go a day or two without any rain.


Here is a closeup of the South end. You can see a couple of leaves going yellowish. Those are ripe and ready to pick. I picked about 3 lbs green weight of tobacco this morning, probably a pound dry weight, that will make good cigar filler. I hope to get a few decent binder and wrapper leaves from the next priming. (cutting.)