How easy are marigolds to grow?

When we purchased our home we had 1 lone marigold plant, my kids and I collected, dried, and kept the seed pods.


My mother says just till a spot and spread them on- water- and they will grow.


This sounds WAY too easy


Could it be true????

How easy are marigolds to grow?
My favorite flower.


Purdue feeds these flowers to thier chickens to give thier skin that yellow glow they like to advertize about so often.





If you plant Marigolds among the plants in a vegatable garden a lot of hungry bugs will stay away. I do it with tomatoe plants.





Just take the seeds an spread them around,,,cover with a little soil, about 1/8 of an inch and mist the ground with water every day. A mist--not a spray.





As the plants flower and then when the flowers have wilted---pull them off and more flowers will grow on the same plant.





keep the dried seeds for next year.
Reply:yes they are, they will grow pretty much anywhere with a little sun and water! don't forget to save the seeds again!


also morning glories are easy too
Reply:It's TRUE! You can throw in some petunia seeds along with it and they thrive also. The marigold seeds that I saved year to year...grew taller and taller each year until they were like huge mums. Marigolds also help keep the rabbits out if you use them to surround your vegie garden!
Reply:yes they are you dont even have to collect the seeds just when there dry on plant throw them all back into soil spread around when they reach say 5 cm as they will be growing everywhere you can transplant them just where you want them


good for keep insect away to.....they come mainly in orange and yellow
Reply:It's true they are very easy to grow
Reply:Yes, Zinnias %26amp; Marigolds are super easy to grow. We just 'crush' up the dead dry flowers in our fingers and then just scatter in back onto the ground. That was last October/November(the plants were still blooming!) now you can see them starting to come up again. They're about 1" high right now. Some seeds I started indoors in January are about 3" high. Very good success rate with the seeds. I had a 99% birth rate with the seeds indoors.
Reply:These annuals are VERY easy to grow. Heed your Mum. You will be rewarded by their beautiful blooms and the benefit to your garden is that bugs find the the odor offensive so they keep the bugs down in your garden.





Good Growing!!!

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