Flower / Warm season
French Marigold
Bed edges and containers where summer color is needed.
Grown for color and habitat, not as a vegetable crop.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 55
- Germination temperature
- 70-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 10 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 5 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 7 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 7 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water; avoid soggy crowns.
- Soil
- Average, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Do not treat marigolds as a universal insect repellent; evidence varies by pest and crop.
- annual
- containers
- companion-caution
- summer-color
Browse context
- Flower Catalog Category collection
- Aster Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: UMN companion planting guide