Tobacco is a very difficult, tempermental, and labor-intensive crop to grow. The seeds are tiny, almost microscopic. These must be germinated in seed beds, with some covering over it to allow water to enter, but not allow a heavy rain to pound the seedlings, which will kill them. Once several inches high, the seedlings can be transplanted, one at a time, to the field. After the plants are several feet tall they must be "suckered", by hand. The top of each plant is pinched off, to make them bushy, instead of tall and spindly. When ready to harvest, the entire plant is pulled up. The planst are taken to tobacco barns, or curing sheds. The plants are pierced at the bottom of the stalk and slid onto sticks, and hung unspide down in the shed, with several plants hung from each stick. They hang for weeks, until partially dried out and nice and brown. Sometimes fires were kept burning inside the barn or shed to facilitate the drying. Then the leaves are stripped off the stalks, and packed in bales today. In olden times the leaves were packed in gigantic barrels, called hogsheads, thet weighed one thousand pounds or more when full.
the settlers grew corn, tobacco, rice, grains,
George Washington grew primarily grew hemp plants at Mount Vernon.
The answer is John Rolfe. He Showed the Men how to grow the tobacco. He is also married to Pocahontis (Cheif Powatan's Indian princess Daughter). -Kayla Oxley, 8th Grade, Cathlamet, WA. Special Thanks to Mr. Hanson (History teacher) i have learned much from him!
Tobacco
He was a tobacco farmer
Tobacco.
John Rolfe taught the Virginians how to grow tobacco.
No, John Rolfe was the first European to grow tobacco. The Native Americans taught him.
the best place to grow tobacco is Africa because of the black people.
corn and tobacco
Because we have a lot of rain and it is good for the crops if you know how to grow good tobacco.
they grow tobacco
not at all!
People make tobacco. People grow the tobacco plant, pick the leaves, the leaves are dried and cut and this is what we call tobacco.
yes you can grow tobacco in many places including Beijing.
They do not produce any edible products since tobacco farmers by definition grow tobacco.
they grow tobacco.