One of the most popular and well-known summer fragrant plants is fragrant tobacco. It belongs to the Solanaceae family and was introduced back in the 15th century by the famous traveler and discoverer Christopher Columbus. Today, tobacco is grown not only for smoking, but also as an ornamental garden flower.
The plant lives only one season, but true amateur gardeners give great preference to such a flower as fragrant tobacco. Growing from seeds will not cause much trouble even to the most inexperienced gardener.
Sow a flower in the spring: in March or April, in greenhouse conditions or at home. The plant is very thermophilic, in principle, like any summer. Prefers light and fertilized soils. However, if you are faced with the fact that the garden has clay soil, then for good growth it is necessary to dig and fertilize it abundantly. Fragrant tobacco seeds are quite small: from one gram of seeds, you can get up to five thousand such flowers as fragrant tobacco. Growing from seeds must begin withpushing them into the ground. It is not advised to sprinkle with earth on top, since the seeds themselves are very small. Sowing must be covered with polyethylene or glass. On the fifteenth day, flower shoots appear, after which the temperature in the room should be slightly reduced. When leaves appear, fragrant tobacco, which is not particularly difficult to grow, must be transplanted into separate pots for each flower.
By the time the seedlings become stronger, the flower must begin to harden in the fresh air. With the onset of consistently warm summer weather, the plant must be transplanted into outdoor soil. Flower bushes are located at least twenty centimeters from each other. They also need to provide moderate watering. Do not overdo it with water, as an excess of moisture does not like fragrant tobacco. Growing from seeds is not the only way to reproduce. The flower can also reproduce by self-sowing. However, the flowering of such a plant will begin only in the second half of the summer season.
In cases where it is necessary to preserve a flower, before the onset of cold weather, you need to transplant it into a pot and bring fragrant tobacco into the heat. Growing from seeds requires certain knowledge. So, you need to remember that the flower tolerates a lack of heat, light or moisture, as well as
small drops in temperature. The plant is a phytoncide - this means that some types of pests are not afraid of it.
A few bushes of a well-developed plant canfill the whole garden with a pleasant aroma. Flowers of fragrant tobacco smell especially in the evening. Having a couple of bushes, for example, on your balcony, you will be provided with abundant flowering until late autumn.
The most common are white tobacco flowers. During the day, the flower is closed and almost odorless. However, hybrids with pink or red flowers are now often found. The smell of such flowers is no less pleasant and will fill your garden with a strong honey aroma even in the daytime.
