Here's the photos of my 2010 crop so far:
I will let you see the pictures of the carpeted tobacco patch first, then I will explain;
The carpet was not my idea, but was the idea of the owner of the land. I don't know what this carpet is called, but I can tell you what it does and what it is for. This is the same carpet laid down between two railroad tracks. Rain and water drains right through it, but it prevents other plants from taking hold and growing, except where two edges of the carpet meet, as you can see above.
Of the species I planted this year, only the Izmir-Osbas is so far blooming. I only have three of those and one has the proto-bud and here are photos of the other two:
You know I love the Virginia Gold. You can see in this photo it is nowhere near ready, since the bottom leaves are not yet 3 times the size of my size 12 shoe:
The rest of the photos show what you get when you screw up by not tending to the plants for the first month after planting. (I have been VERY busy.) Suckers not only form, but grow into new stems. Here's a plant with one sucker, which leaves the plant with two stems:
This one has two suckers, which leaves it with three stems:
Here's the base of the plant in the above photo:
