I appreciate all the responses, and I’m of a mind to attempt two different attempts at lazy man’s tobacco.
One will be land race, or rustic tobacco I’ll plant in a secluded place on my farm where a wagon road ran once upon a time, my father said was abandoned before he was born a hundred years ago. The ruts are still visible, and a stone fence still protects it, and curiously weeds and brush don’t invade it. Let’s see how it raises tobacco. Ideally in years to come wild tobacco will grow in that old roadbed, year by year on it’s own.
The other, I think will be bright leaf raised in my wife’s raised garden beds. Maybe I’ll try some burley at the same time. Those will get some watering and attention.
I’ll start the plants inside sometime in February and transplant them in April, when the dogwoods bloom.
Another aspect is I get an excuse to take photographs of the attempts.
And the old road bed needs some apple, pear, plum, cherry and grapevines planted too.
If the deer don’t eat them up.