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!
For more on companion flowers, check out this video:
The Best Flowers to Boost Vegetable Gardens
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Yes Sir! Couldn't agree with you more! I always buy a little at my local garden center early in the season so I already have some in bloom to help deter pests early on in the season then add in my own home grown ones that haven't bloomed yet a little later on. I also direct seed some too in random spots that have extra space and dig them up to be transplanted wherever needed. I companion plant them with ALL of my edibles.
thanks for sharing
marigolds, a garden performs poorly without them.
Will they deter whitefly from kale?
Even if I grew nothing at all, your main videos, full of enthusiasm & fantastic advice brighten my day. Thank you ✌️❤️🌻
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.
And some varieties are good for chickens ☺️🐓 french marigolds and candulas , I've recently found the African marigolds and I absolutely love them now ♥️
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 saved seeds from my Marigolds last Year & the Year before. Will be growing them again this Year, as my Tomato Protectors.👍🌱🍅
TFS GV. Take care everybody.❤🙂🐶
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
Lemon grass is good companion plant but less glamorous 😊
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!