What variety of marigold

[rary]

What variety of marigold would you recommend for growing with tomatoes?

[roitelet]

Taggetas I think that’s how you spell it. French marigolds, supposed to deter white fly and nematodes.

[veggiechicken]

Tagetes............

[Teds Mum]

Tagetes minuta is good as a herb as well as deterring pests from your tomatoes.

[Ms-T]

Tagetes minuta is good as a herb as well as deterring pests from your tomatoes.

How do you use it as a harb ? please tell.

[Teds Mum]

Suttons sell it as peruvian black mint. It does smell sort of like mint. We use the leaves much as you would mint, chuck it in with some new potatoes and butter, yum yum.
Apparently it can also be used instead of coriander in curry recipes. I've not tried that, it's not at all like coriander.

[Trouvere]

The flower petals of Tagetes patula are dried and ground as the Georgian spice Imeretian saffron.

[veggiechicken]

Tagetes minuta is good as a herb as well as deterring pests from your tomatoes.

Suttons sell it as peruvian black mint. It does smell sort of like mint. We use the leaves much as you would mint, chuck it in with some new potatoes and butter, yum yum.
Apparently it can also be used instead of coriander in curry recipes. I've not tried that, it's not at all like coriander.

AKA Stinking Roger according to goggle. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/52642

Bet Suttons wouldn't make many sales if they call it that.

[mrbadexample]

When are you supposed to sow marigolds? And how? Heated / unheated etc. I saved seed from last year so there are no instructions.

[veggiechicken]

What sort of marigolds - English/calendula or French/African/Tagetes?
Calendula doesn't need pampering - the others do.

[jackarmy]

i sowed french marigolds indoors in the middle of jan, they went into the greenhouse at second leaf stage, so far their loving life

[Babru]

[QUOTE=veggiechicken;1642965]AKA Stinking Roger according to goggle. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/52642

This is fascinating VC. Looks ideal for growing in with your tomatoes, useful for eating too, but if our climate ever warms up considerably it would be a menace if it escapes.

[mrbadexample]

What sort of marigolds - English/calendula or French/African/Tagetes?
Calendula doesn't need pampering - the others do.

Ones from the garden centre! I suspect they might be the Tagetes but I'm really not sure. I just stick 'em in my veg beds in the hope that it's the right thing to do.

[Gillykat]

I've read in a few places that Tagetes minuta is good at killing weeds and even stuff like bindweed and ground elder!!!

https://www.sarahraven.com/flowers/s...tes_minuta.htm


I tend to use the smaller Tagetes varieties like Naughty Marietta, Golden Gem etc. The first year I grew tomatoes in the polytunnel and put a Tagetes plant in-between each one they just grew like crazy!!! Flowered constantly for months and attracted the really good pollinators and pest controllers like hoverflies in. It was like a jungle at times But not once did I have any issues on the tomatoes or other crops (cucumber, lettuce, beetroot, carrots etc) as regards greenfly, aphids or whitefly

As far as I'm concerned you can NEVER have too much Tagetes on your allotment!

[Gillykat]

Forgot to add.....Calendula is good too and I let it merrily set seed wherever it wants and just lift up any seedlings in the wrong place with a trowel and repot them into the ground elsewhere. The bees and hoverflies love it and that means your crops get pollinated AND the pests are kept in check......and it's pretty too

Never tried African Marigolds tho' my dad always grew them in the front garden. I might give them a go this year