How to grow your own beautiful tobacco plants from seed. Your Soil Tobacco plants are very heavy feeders. Select an area of your garden that has full sun. Prepare your soil before planting by working in well rotted compost and manure. Try to plant where leaves or wood ash has been burned as the plants will thrive in these spots.
Tobacco requires a lot of nitrogen and potash which is supplied by wood ashes.
The ashes from charcoal grills are also beneficial. Working in rotted manure is very good for the plants. Depending on strain you will need 1 to 2 Square foot per plant. Never raise tobacco plants in the same spot in the garden for over a few years at a time as tobacco plants will totally deplete the nutrients in the soil. The plants are large enough to transplant when the largest leaves are 2 inches or larger.