Our marigolds in the vegetable garden look amazing, just six weeks after planting!
Last month I shared my gardening experiment: planting marigolds in the vegetable garden for their many benefits.
You can read that post here: Marigolds in the Vegetable Garden? Yes!
Here’s what the vegetable garden looked like six weeks ago, the first day everything was planted:
And this is the vegetable garden today:
What a difference, right?
Here’s a pretty marigold and a pumpkin plant, newly planted six weeks ago:
Earlier this week, we had gorgeous pumpkin blossoms popping up among the large pumpkin leaves:
And today the flowers and pumpkin plant — just that one little plant — look like this:
This is our first time planting pumpkins, and I can’t wait to see how many pumpkins we get. I’ll be happy with just a few big ones!
Here’s what the newly planted marigolds and corn looked like six weeks ago:
Are you ready to see how the plants look today?
Ta-da!
We’re already seeing the beginnings of the corn cobs too:
As for the marigolds?
There’s a bunny in our yard – he comes to visit every day – and we have watched him ignore the vegetable bed. All of our vegetables are doing great, with lots of bees buzzing around pollinating the blossoms. So far, so good!
I love how pretty they look against all of the green plants. And I love even more how they seem to be helping out the veggies too!
If you want to read about all of the benefits of adding marigolds to your vegetable garden, definitely click the link in the beginning of this post, as I list them all there.
Happy gardening!
~Laura
Everything looks great! What a pretty (and bountiful!) garden! I planted marigolds around my lettuce beds. The rabbits ate all the leaves off of every one of my marigold plants, but left the lettuce alone!
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Wow Jenny – I didn’t know rabbits would even nibble on marigolds, let alone eat their leaves, as supposedly they are repulsed by the marigold scent. But that’s great the lettuce remained untouched! Whew! 🙂 Thanks for sharing, as I love to hear how others are doing with marigolds and veggie gardens!
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My marigolds and chrysanthemums were immediately devoured by all the bugs that are around – and they were planted to be insect deterrents!
That’s a shame Michele! Are you sure there’s not an animal devouring them? I’d suggest asking your local nursery professional for some advice. Perhaps they know of what is attacking your plants and can suggest a remedy! Fingers crossed for you!
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PS — and extra reply to you Michele, as in my “first” post about marigolds (link at the top of this article above), I mention that marigolds do attract spider mites which you don’t want in the vegetable garden. If you don’t want to use chemicals (which we don’t) you can regularly spray them with a hose to know the spider mites off. We haven’t had them (spider mites) be a problem, of course I’m knocking on wood! 😉
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You planted corn!! I keep wanting to plant corn and hubby says it takes too much space. I’m going to show him your garden so he can see it can be done! 🙂
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Jennifer – I was SO skeptical when my hubs wanted to plant corn, as I thought the same thing. I’m still wondering how huge these plant stalks will grow, but at least they are contained within the garden bed walls! We only planted three tiny plants, which look VERY deceiving at the garden centers!
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I also started planting marigolds in the garden in 2014, and I also would love to add: Borage is a wonderful garden-buddy, too! Especially near tomatoes and cucumbers, since it confuses a lot of pests. Plus the plants have these beautiful blue flowers – something to consider if you’d like to continue adding flowers among your vegetables!
Thank you for the photos – a lovely example!
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