The Ultimate Companion Flower!

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

If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers:
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[ChickenSaladRimjob]

My elderly neighbor passed away earlier this year. I went to her garden this fall and harvested hundreds of Marigold seeds. Gonna keep them going.

[laurensalisbury]

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!

[debbienash]

Marigolds and zinnias in my vegetable garden every year. Lots of pollinator activity to watch while working in the garden. Stress just melts away.

[lindajarvis]

Also they distroy pest and some weeds such as mares tails... The Incas grew them to keep the soil clean for growing potatoes... Fabulous plants

[jiggli-Jane]

Even if I grew nothing at all, your main videos, full of enthusiasm & fantastic advice brighten my day. Thank you ✌️❤️🌻

[maryleslie]

If you break branches in your kitchen it keeps away flies lots of love from a Gardner in South Africa

[MagnakayViolet]

Marigolds also propagate well. If it falls over, it will make roots on the stem and keep growing.

[catezaida]

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!

[GardeningwithDave]

Marigolds, basil, and garlic for my 2024 garden. Thank you for sharing brother. Love from California ❤

[mrsjuliasmith]

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.

[mariedixon]

I love this man. When I need to know something, he always has the answers. Clear precise and I could listen to him all day. WHY are you not on TV???

[theloveforgardening]

I love marigolds. They are good flowers to grow in the garden 🌼🌼

[Cossychick]

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.

[maxibake]

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.❤🙂🐶

[antonywinfield]

i harvested the seeds from my shop brought marigolds from last year. cant wait to get sowing

[lovecara]

I love Marigolds and after becoming a newbie Veg Grower I am pleased to know that they are such a value.

[Vivienwestphal]

I bought seeds for two types of marigolds this year - white Kilimanjaro and Sugar and spice marigold. I can't wait to see how do they look like in my mini garden 😍

[terrireddish]

And some varieties are good for chickens ☺️🐓 french marigolds and candulas, I've recently found the African marigolds and I absolutely love them now ♥️

[carm]

Love love love marigolds! Always reminds me of my mother too as she always planted them. Love the smell too believe it or not

[mattt]

Literally one of the best summer smells 🙂