Marigold are loved for beauty, blossoming duration, unpretentiousness. They are grown up practically by all fans of flowers. Many gardeners do not know that marigold can become effective assistants in pest control and diseases in garden and on beds.
Marigold belong to those unique flower plants which give joy of magnificent blossoming and at the same time are the soldiers protecting many other plants from invasion of mean insects, mushroom diseases. And all farmers should use this advantage of marigold by all means.
The specific smell of marigold does not allow such harmful insects on the territory as: plant louses, bugs, flea beetles, Colorado beetles, etc. Put near beds of carrots, onion, marigold misguide "" carrot and onions fly, weakening their attacks. And alternating landings of seedling of cabbage and marigold, cabbage is to a lesser extent damaged by caterpillars as butterflies practically do not sit down on cabbage plants.
The good protective effect is brought by landing around beds with cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, among bushes of garden wild strawberry. Marigold ruin fungal infection not only in the soil, but also in air. It is useful to plant marigold at entrance to greenhouses, and a few low marigold in greenhouses, at the edges of beds if the place allows. Planting of marigold among lilies, irises, tulips and other bulbous disinfects the soil. Marigold suppress such artful disease as fuzariozny withering. Therefore, it is better to leave deflowered plants of marigold to rot through on such places in the fall. The upper part of marigold (the root is left in the soil) is cut off by secateurs, crushed and slightly powdered with the soil.
Marigold - the plants capable to clean the soil from nematode, without applying chemical means. For this purpose grow up the rejected marigold on the infected soil not less than 100 days, then crush and close up to the soil. Roots, getting deep into soils emit substances, pernicious for nematodes.
Skilled summer residents use marigold as the siderat. It increases fertility of the soil, cleans it from various diseases, so, on such sites the productivity will be higher. Of course, it is a little labor-consuming. It is necessary to grow up seedling, to plant it, in very dry weather to water. But there are also pluses. Seeds ascend quickly, seedlings strong, seedling takes root without problems, grows in itself. It is necessary to crush and close up only plants to the soil in the fall. But the long time on one and that site is not desirable to apply marigold. It is better to alternate marigold to other sideratny plants.
Landings of marigold in garden in pristvolny circles of fruit-trees, about bushes of currant, gooseberry are also effective. And it is beautiful, and it is useful.