Before planning to grow Tobacco, it is important to know when to plant Tobacco. Tobacco plants are best grown under warmer climate conditions. It is also best grown where there is rich soil present. Those living in southern areas will find Tobacco growing well in such places. For those who live in cool places, they can grow Tobacco but should do it indoors through container gardening and also should keep the plants indoors during winter seasons.
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Since the climate of the chesapeake colonies was so much like that of the middle colonies they had very good soil in the chesapeake colonies. Deciding to grow a lot of tobacco. Tobacco was the main crop though there was some shipbuilding and shipping to ship the tobacco to the other colonies and back to England.
They grew tobacco, rice, and indigo
Tobacco was the first cash crop in the English Colonies in America. The first to grow tobacco was John Rolfe of Jamestown. He brought tobacco seeds he had acquired in Trinidad . By 1612, he had harvested his initial crop to be exported to Europe.
Tobacco depended on foreign markets, so its price varied widely. Tobacco also wore out land quickly because it stripped the soil of its nutrients. Rice needed to have a wet climate.
John Rolfe raised a successful tobacco crop in 1612. In 1619, it was the crop most people grew for profit.