FREE: Marigold Seeds, 175 mg American Seed Co.

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Marigolds are a gardeners best friend. These gold and orange beauties deter mosquitoes! Marigolds' greatest claim to pest control fame is their effect, documented in numerous studies, on nematodes, which are a kind of worm that in some cases is destructive to plants.

Like other members of the daisy family, marigolds also do their share in feeding nectar to beneficial insects, such as syrphid flies, who prey on aphids and other insects that attack garden plants. Other beneficial effects of marigolds are less dramatic or useful. They have been shown to have some slight effect in repelling cabbage worms from cabbage and their kin. And some marigolds, especially a variety called Stinking Roger, repel flies, except that the flies are the kind that bother cows and other domestic animals, not plants. Read and listen to claims made for marigolds, and you also could press it into service as a fungus killer, an insect killer, even a selective weed killer.

Besides their beauty and good effects for your garden, once planted, they will reseed themselves annually, if you water them weekly, and pinch off dead heads, dropping them into the garden.

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