{"id":8802,"date":"2010-10-27T02:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:26:12","slug":"growing-tagetes-and-seed-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-tagetes-and-seed-collecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Tagetes and Seed Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"tagetes by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3926145861\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2627\/3926145861_612f592104.jpg\" alt=\"taggetee\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tagete tenuifolia is one of my favourites of the marigold family. It generally has many small  single flowers over a long period. Whilst the red,orange and yellow colour combinations are striking the French, African and Mexican Marigolds cousins are blousy and brash by comparison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Tagetes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The foliage has a musky, pungent scent. The smell deters some common insect pests and I grow them alongside my greenhouse tomatoes.<\/li>\n<li> Tagetes are often used in companion planting for eggplant, chili pepper and potato.<\/li>\n<li>Tagetes grow  well in fertile heavy clay soils and in sandy soils<\/li>\n<li>Plants are not\u00c2\u00a0 frost resistant and need to be grown as half hardy annuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Seed Collecting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tagetes  need a long growing season\u00c2\u00a0 to set seed in Britain. Sow\u00c2\u00a0 in March for flowering in\u00c2\u00a0 autumn<\/li>\n<li>Removing dead flowers before the seed is formed will extend the flowering season but reduce seed production.<\/li>\n<li>Each of the multitude of flowers will produce a clutch of seeds trapped in the soft semi open seedhead.<\/li>\n<li>The seeds are like small, fine quills with a black section and an off white feathery end that protrudes from the clutch.<\/li>\n<li>Collect when dry with the seedhead turning brown. The neck bends down prior to dispersing seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Store in an old envelope and avoid trapped moisture that can cause rot.<\/li>\n<li>I do not have any success with self-sown seeds so I collect my own seeds from the many produced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=tagetes&amp;tag=richardpettin-21&amp;index=blended&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\">Tagetes,<\/a> &#8216;Tagetes Patula, Tagetes Lucida, Tagetes Minuta, Tagetes Erecta, Bolivian Coriander, Adenophyllum Porophylloid&#8217; is the only book specifically on the species that I can find.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Names and Varieties<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Many varieties are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=marigold\"> Thompson Morgan<\/a>\n<li> Tagetes minuta is a weed in some areas known as Stinking Roger.<\/li>\n<li>French marigolds are really Tagetes patula.<\/li>\n<li>Pot Marigolds are not Tagetes but are Calendulas<\/li>\n<li>Tagetes Tenuifolia Lemon Gem is a bright 8&#8243; high lemon flowering plant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/images?q=tagetes&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rlz=1R1GGGL_en___GB345&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi&amp;biw=1584&amp;bih=733\">Other Pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tagete tenuifolia is one of my favourites of the marigold family. It generally has many small single flowers over a long period. Whilst the red,orange and yellow colour combinations are striking the French, African and Mexican Marigolds cousins are blousy and brash by comparison. Growing Tagetes The foliage has a musky, pungent scent. The smell deters some common insect pests and I grow them alongside my greenhouse tomatoes. Tagetes are often used in companion planting for eggplant, chili pepper and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-tagetes-and-seed-collecting\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}