Before you use tobacco and its byproducts on your garden, you'd be wise to read up on Tobacco Mosaic Virus, a disease that's deadly to many plants, including tomatoes.
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Before you use tobacco and its byproducts on your garden, you'd be wise to read up on Tobacco Mosaic Virus, a disease that's deadly to many plants, including tomatoes.
i was just going to mention that my wife is paranoid of my nubs in her tomato beds...Quote:
Originally Posted by ghe
In these parts, tobacco is primed and the stalks left in the field. Tobacco farming has really fell off over the years. People used to get the stalks ground up and spread on their yard. My father-in-law did one year and said the results were amazing. Don't quote me on why, but I believe it's nitrogen content.
I've read handling tomato plants after handling tobacco can cause problems for the tomato plant.
Unrelated note:My uncle James would sit on the porch chewing tobacco and throw it in the front yard when he was done. Can't count the times I thought I had stepped on a dog turd, but luckily it was just old chew.:)