Flower / Cool season
Pacific Beauty Calendula
Cool-season color, edible petals, and insectary strips.
Petals are resinous and peppery; use sparingly.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 60
- Germination temperature
- 55-70F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 10 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 10 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Hot weather reduces bloom quality. Moderate water; deadhead for longer bloom. Average, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Moderate water; deadhead for longer bloom.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Hot weather reduces bloom quality.
- edible-flowers
- pollinators
- cool-season
- containers
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Source: Seed Savers seed saving guide