Gewürztagetes - Tagetes tenuifolia

Season Overview

Description

Beautifully compact growing, delicate filigree only 30 cm high growing Tagetes with yellow, orange and red simple flowers that also taste good. Beautify your salad with spice tagetes. Also suitable for balcony and container gardening! Spice Tagetes bloom tirelessly throughout the summer and attract many insects with their bright flowers. They also fit well in the vegetable patch, see mixed culture tip. The root exudates of Tagetes can destroy nematodes on carrot and tomato roots. They prevent wireworm infestations on potatoes. Their intense scent keeps mice away and repels cabbage pests and vegetable flies. Favorable also between beans against the black bean aphid. Marigolds also promote the growth of parsley and cucumbers. Suitable as a distraction food in the salad bed, because slugs like to eat Tagetes.

Growing tips

Light germinator. Snails favorite food 😳

Details

Light requirement

Sunny

Seeding distance

25 cm

Row spacing

30 cm

Seeding depth

0 cm