How to grow sweet-smelling tobacco. Cultivation from seeds

One of the most popular and famous summer fragrant plants is fragrant tobacco. It belongs to the Nightshade family and was introduced 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 gardeners-lovers prefer a flower such as sweet-smelling tobacco. Cultivation from the seeds will not cause much trouble even to the most inexperienced gardener.

Plant the flower in spring: in March or April, in greenhouse conditions or at home. The plant is very thermophilic, in principle, like any summer. He prefers light and fertilized soils. However, if you are confronted with the clay soil in the garden, then for good growth it is necessary to dig and abundantly fertilize it. Seeds of fragrant tobacco are rather small: from one gram of seeds you can get up to five thousand such flowers as fragrant tobacco. Cultivation from seeds must begin with punching them into the ground. Sprinkle on top of the earth is not advised, since the seeds themselves are very small. Sowing must always 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, the cultivation of which is not a particularly complex process, must be transplanted into separate pots for each flower.

By the time the seedlings become stronger, the flower needs to be tempered in the fresh air. With the onset of a stable warm summer weather, the plant must be transplanted into the outdoors. The 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 overabundance of moisture does not like fragrant tobacco. Cultivation from seeds is not the only way of reproduction. The flower can reproduce itself and self-seeding. 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 the flower, before the onset of cold weather, it is necessary to transplant it into a pot and bring into the heat fragrant tobacco. Cultivation from seeds requires certain knowledge. So, you need to remember that the flower carries a lack of heat, light or moisture, and also Slight decrease in temperature. The plant is a phytoncid - this means that some types of pests are not terrible to him.

Several bushes of well-developed plants can fill a pleasant scent with a whole garden. Especially fragrant smells of fragrant tobacco 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 the flowers of white tobacco. In the afternoon the flower is closed and almost odorless. However, now there are often hybrids with flowers pink or red. The smell of such flowers is no less pleasant and will fill your garden with a strong honey aroma even in the daytime.