These Big Golden Blooms Control Nematodes More Effectively than Chemical Pesticides!
Marigold Golden Guardian
2-foot plants are both beautiful and useful!
Interplant in dense rows with your vegetables for bigger-than-ever yields!
Tested successfully in Holland, Golden Guardian is a Marigold that packs a powerful punch--interplanted with vegetables (especially tomatoes), it is the most effective at killing harmful nematodes! With a 99% success rate over 3 months, Golden Guardian is even more effective than chemical pesticides! And the big, single-flowered golden-orange blooms are lovely.
Nematodes live in the soil, feeding on and damaging the roots of tomatoes and other young vegetables, resulting in reduced growth, yellowed and wilted plants, and poor yields. Marigolds have long been planted as a nematode repellent, but not until Golden Guardian has one been shown to actually be more effective at eliminating these pests than commercial pesticides! The natural way to grow beautiful blooms while protecting the vegetable crop, Golden Guardian belongs in every garden!
Sow direct in the garden when the soil has warmed, or start seeds indoors in late winter. Very easy to grow in full sun, it reaches 2 feet tall. Pkt is approximately 600 seeds.
| Genus | Tagetes |
| Species | patula |
| Variety | Golden Guardian |
| Bloom Season | Early Summer - Mid Fall |
| Plant Height | 24 in |
| Bloom Size | 2 in |
| Item Form | Seeds |
| Additional Characteristics | Direct Sow, Ever Blooming, Flower |
| Bloom Color | Gold, Orange |
| Bloom Season | Summer |
| Light Requirements | Full Sun |
| Moisture Requirements | Moist, well-drained |
| Resistance | Pest Resistant |
| Soil Tolerance | Normal, loamy |
| Uses | Beds, Ornamental, Outdoor |
I can ditto everything the previous reviewer said. I stuck several seeds into every hole I dropped a tomato seedling into. They definitely helped my tomato crop. Plus they were beautiful mixed in with the other plants. I believe 1 seed in each hole will suffice this year. They are tall, and they're very "whispy" (airy and not sturdy) so they look best planted in with other things. I plan to add them to my rows of zinnias, sunflowers, and tithonias this year. I can't wait to see the beautiful combination!
Best beneficial insect enticer!
Golden Guardian marigolds brought in every single specie of bees to our guardian. I interplanted them everywhere in our garden and we had the best tomatoes we have ever grown! A word of caution, these marigold plants stood over 2 feet tall with a profusion of flowers. I planted too many of them, Ha! The beneficial insect population loved these flowers. All our vegetables produced abundantly probably due to all the insects that Golden Guardian enticed into our garden. I will definitely plant these again
