Although our growing season is fairly long, I’m afraid a good rain every couple of days would be a pipe dream in the next month or so. As crazy as this is, although I live on a lake, we have had severe watering restrictions for several years...even when there was no drought.
I think I’ll look for seed, get some plants started and shoot for next spring.
I know people who grow tobacco in their potted patio gardens, not that that would be enough to warrant harvesting. More of a sentimental thing, connection to the past, tobacco planter families like mine who got out.
They're actually sort of pretty, big dark green leaves, six feet or even more in height depending upon variety, gummy to the touch like a petunia or Nicotania. Pinkish white blooms along the top of the stalk that you'll need to top in order to keep the plant growing. As you've discovered with petunias, they get leggy and stop growing if you fail to dead head them, pinching the faded blooms off. Once they go to seed, they figure their mission in life is accomplished, lol.