Want more vegetables, more pollinators and fewer pests in your garden? Then you need to grow companion flowers! Marigolds are one of the very best companion plants. Their cheerful colours are just the start of the long list of reasons to grow them and you can start by sowing them right now!
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The Best Flowers to Boost Vegetable Gardens
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These flowers attract too much caterpillars.This is what i hate about it.
They can also be used to make gloves for doing the dish washing
Super easy to save seed. Tie a string around favorite flower and take the seeds before they are lost.
Love love love marigolds! Always reminds me of my mother too as she always planted them. Love the smell too believe it or not
i harvested the seeds from my shop brought marigolds from last year. cant wait to get sowing
I never considered planting them at the base of tomatoes!
So beautiful
Great video. Helpful Interesting useful and great range of flowers for sure !
I plant them like spikes- black end down and have always had amazing success with them germinating
Great Ben
My dad’s always said that marigolds attract slugs
I love Marigolds and after becoming a newbie Veg Grower I am pleased to know that they are such a value.
I grew a ton of them last season, luv them,planted them In all my pots with the veggies absolutely gorgeous & easy -peasy !!!
Thank you – clearly explained and so I’m off to get some seeds!
We always planted marigolds and tomatoes together when I was a kid and the combined smell just says summer to me! I love grow marigolds all over the garden and yard. Last year we had a plethora of pollinators as a result! And they bloomed well into October!
I use them around my cabbages. Cabbage beetles hate marigolds. Best way I have found for my situation, is to plant the cabbage in a cinder block container with squares up, two cinder blocks wide and plant the cabbage in the middle and the marigolds in each hole. Works like a charm!
With my marigolds I just push the black part of the seed under the soil with the dry white but at the top poking out. Always seems to work!
Just sowed mine yesterday!
Stab them in pointy side down for best results
Will definitely grow marigolds,I used them very successfully next to carrots they helped to keep away carrot fly
And Marigolds are edible too!
I love marigolds. Ive been busy collecting seeds to plant in spring. I have heaps of marigold, cosmos, borage, sunflower, and felicia seeds that ive collected from plants in our garden. Im going to collect vege seeds next.