I found this Tagetes field yesterday and suposed it was a seed field. The neighbour I talk to give me real reason. They are planted to disinfect the soil for a new fruit tree planting . I found on internet this explanation :
Help goat plants in your vegetable garden?
Many gardeners plant tares (Africans, stinkers) in their vegetable garden: against veins, diseases, ... But does it work? Scientific research is as follows:
1. Tagetesplant the scent ...
For example, they confuse the carbon white (when roofs are close to your cabbage). Rubbing over the roof plant regularly is only effective. Other fragrant plants have the same effect. Annual herbs like basil, coriander, dill, ... fit well in your vegetable garden.
2. Tagetes flowers attract useful insects ...
... but only if your roofs are single-flowered . Double-flowered cultivars do not. Also other single flowers attract many useful insects. Some other annals who have success are marigold, cosmos, mimulus, rudbeckia, echinops, helenium, ...
3. Roots of Tagetes divide thienyl derivatives
... attracting and killing some (not all) types of aalties ( nematoden.) For this purpose, you must grow your entire plot with the right type of Tagetes for at least three months.
Translation by Google translate.
I wouldn't mind at all having my garden overflowing with the beautiful and colorful flower! I see that marigolds help, but here, they attract snails that eat them all! Such a lovely splash of color!
How interesting and wonderful that the tagetes not only look beautiful in the garden and here in one big mass but also have the purpose of disinfecting the land without the use of artificial pesticides and disinfectants !
Gardeners here often plant these flowers (we call them marigolds) with their gardens to keep small animals away. The taller plants toward the back really give scale to this field of flowers. It's beautiful.
Thank you for the story - so very interesting. I knew of some ways how to improve the conditions of the soil but this is by far more interesting. Superb capture of this beautiful flower field.
Who knew- they just look like pretty flowers to me! And speaking of flowers- every workshop needs at least one bouquet of them hanging in between the hammers and drills!
September 7th, 2017
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