Sowing Seeds

Tobacco seeds are very tiny, roughly 10,000 seeds per teaspoon. We found that sowing our seeds into shallow trays between June to July and in a warm place is ideal.

• Fill tray with seed raising mix (they will do fine in a coarser material such as potting mix but we've found the roots grow around larger material making it difficult to separate them when transplanting later)
• Sprinkle seeds thinly over the seed raising mix
• Place a shallow tray underneath the growing tray
• From here on, only water the bottom tray, this helps to ensure you don't damage the delicate young stems as they emerge
• Water as needed not letting the seed raising mix dry out
  

Once seeds germinate it's important to move the seedlings into sunlight and keep warm, but still indoors in areas affected by frost.
Now is a good time to start prepare the garden where your plants will finish growing.