GardenersCardiff answers:

Climate permitting, yes you can.
Depending on what you plan to do with the crop, you should also obtain guidance from HMRC.

GardenersCardiff answers:

Okay, you won’t listen when I tell you not to smoke. Will you listen when I tell you to learn to spell?

Seriously, the addictive ingredient in tobacco is just flat-out bad for you. It’s a highly effective ingredient in some insecticides. Why would you cling to that?

As to how much work is involved, you’d first have to grow the crop, which takes up some space. There might also be an allotment system in your state that you could run afoul of, a system that monitors and dictates how much tobacco an individual is permitted to grow. As a small-batch hobby grower, you’d probably be able to skirt around that with little difficulty.

What you might not be able to skirt, however, would be the taxes. Tobacco products are very heavily taxed as you are already well aware, getting into this in an effort to reduce your costs. People running their diesel-engined cars on biodiesel fuel have discovered to their dismay that the government can be pretty tough on people who try to have the privileges without paying the taxes: imagine driving perfectly happily in your old Benz on fuel made from old fryer grease, and the government hits you with a bill for several thousand dollars PLUS a fine for tax evasion? It has happened, and could happen to you. Your plants will be out there for all to see, and rest assured that quite a lot of people know what tobacco looks like when it’s growing. You only need ONE busybody sticking his/her nose in to report you to someone, and you’ve got a nasty tax evasion problem to sort out.

It probably won’t happen, but it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility.

Once you’ve grown the crop you have to dry it out. That takes up space too, completely different space that’s warm and dry, out of the sun and off the ground.

After all that is done, all that’s left is chopping and grinding and rolling your own. But be warned, you probably won’t be satisfied with the results. The nicotine content of commercial cigarettes is much higher than what you’ll be able to generate, so your usual level of smoking won’t give you the psychoactive effects you’re used to.

So you’ll just have to smoke more.

Maybe it’s not such a great idea.

GardenersCardiff answers:

In late summer when the tobacco starts to turn yellow cut the stalk about 2-3 inches above the ground…run a string through it providing you dont have alot of plants and hang it upside down in an outbuilding or barn so that none of it touches the ground..within 2-3 mos it will all be brown and ready for whatever you are going to use it for…i live in kentucky and we used to be known as the tobacco capitol…..if you have quite a few plants you can use what we call tobacco sticks..they are about 4 ft long..slightly pointed on the ends and while men are cutting tobacco a spear is put over each stick on one end and the other end is jabbed into the ground to “spear” the tobacco so it can hang from the sticks in a barn until ready to strip. You can usually get 5-7 plants on one stick depending on their size..dont want to crowd them to much as they need air to cure. Also after stripping the leaves from the plant the stalk can be thrown on the ground..this return nutrients to the soil..farmers here spread them over their fields and they are usually gone within a few months

hope this helps