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Calendula in the garden: not all gardeners know about its benefits
15.01.2023 05:50
Updated: 13.04.2023 11:08
In recent years, lovers of bright flowerbeds have ignored this unpretentious flower.
Calendula is being replaced by fashionable petunia, traditional asters, snapdragons, lobelia. And in vain! Much has been said about its medicinal properties, today we are talking about something else.
Wireworm doesn't like calendula
The flower improves the garden and has proven itself as an excellent remedy against wireworm. We throw marigold seeds into the rows between potato plantings, as well as along the perimeter of the field. The result will be noticeable already in the first year. The wireworm will spoil the fruits much less. In the fall, the plants are buried in the beds. It is not worth chopping and compacting, this way they will rot better over the winter. The following year, you will almost never meet the yellow worm.
Aphids love calendula
We place marigolds next to the berry plantings. The harmful insect attacks the plant, ignoring the berry bushes.
Green manure will improve the soil
Along with mustard, oats, phacelia, lupine, we use calendula. We sow this undemanding plant to the soil at the end of August in the vacated areas and in 1.5-2 months we get excellent material for compost, mulch. During this time, calendula grows by 20-25 cm and this green mass is quite enough to destroy pathogens that cause late blight.
Various types of mosaic, mites, leaf-eating caterpillar larvae and wireworms will disappear.
Take note
• Place green plants in the beds before winter – and the result will be excellent.
• In spring you will see many new shoots that have appeared as a result of self-seeding. Just move the seedlings to the desired location – very convenient.
