Market Farming

["linda&neilkerr" <linda-neil.kerr AT xtra.co.nz>]

We have grown tobacco for own use one year, when we still smoked. I found it
very easy to grow, as long as it had enough moisture and compost, no
diseases at all. And quite a pretty plant as well with nice pink flowers. We
harvested and dried the leaves and then soaked them in boiling water and
then soaked them in a mix of lemonade and port. After that we put the packet
of soaked leaves between two bits of wood and used the carjack under the
landrover to press out most of the moisture. Then came the hard work of
cutting in into really small threads with a knife on a cutting board (having
to do that all the time is enough to make you give up smoking quickly). It
was however very smokable. I also would like to add that (personally) I
would not want to grow this crop for selling purposes, for the same reasons
that paul and barb stated.

linda kerr
woody hollow organic gardens
nuhaka, new zealand