Scent of Italy tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum)
This tobacco was grown in the 1930s in Quebec. It bears pretty, slender, trumpet-shaped flowers in pale pink, which attract pollinators. Flowering in August until the first frosts. Its taste is a little more pronounced than Virginia Gold.
MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
If you are planting tobacco for leaf harvest, remove the flowers. The leaves are picked when yellow or brown. If you want to collect seeds and leave food for pollinators, let the flowers bloom. You can also harvest the leaves, but there will be fewer of them.
| Characteristic: Toxic |
| Quantity: Envelope of about 200 seeds |
| Plant type: Annual |
| Family: Solanaceae |
| Flower color: Pink |
| Plantation: In the garden after the risk of frost |
| Sowing: Inside |
| Row spacing: 40 cm to 50 cm |
| Days to maturity: 50 to 60 days |
| Germination: 7 to 21 days |
| Plant spacing: 45 cm |
| Depth: On the surface |
| Exposure: Full sun |
| Watering: Regular |
| Soil: All types of soils |
| Shape: Erected |
| Width: 45 cm |
| Height: 1,15 m |
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