Marigold (Tagetes)
Tagete / Clavelón · Œillet d'Inde
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- warm season
- Grows in
- ☀ summer beds (warm season)
Jobs in the bed
- Cuts nematodesGrown densely for a season, its roots suppress root-knot nematodes in the soil.
Rotation
Do not return Asteraceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✿ Benefit
Grown densely for a season, French-marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes; in greenhouses its scent keeps whiteflies off tomatoes
Also deters beneficial insects; the "vs potato beetle" claim is unproven
✓ Place near
- ✓ Tomato
- ✓ Potato
- ✓ Eggplant / aubergine
- ✓ Melon
- Most beds (borders)
✗ Keep apart
None listed.