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Calendula

Calendula

Calendula is a great way to attract pollinators to your garden. It has much higher pollen levels than
its cousin, the marigold, making it more attractive to bees and butterflies. But it will also attract beneficial insects like lacewing and hoverfly. The best of its herbal medicine is stored in the sticky green bracts so be sure to use the full head in herbal stocks, teas, bone broths and soups.
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Optimal Time/Temperature for Germination:
Calendula can survive light frosts and will usually continue to bloom until they are killed by heavy frost. Many times they will be the last of the annual flowers still blooming in late fall. Hardiness Zones are 2 to10.
Optimal Soil Conditions:
Sandy loam with soil pH between 5.5 and 7.0. Calendulas do not require any special soil. They can be grown anywhere you’re growing other flowers, herbs, or vegetables as long as the flower bed doesn’t become waterlogged after heavy rain.
Seed Planting Depth, Spacing and Procedure:
Plant seeds about 1/4 to 1/2 inch (.64 to 1.27 cm) deep and 4 to 6 (10.16 to 15.24 cm) apart. Cover them lightly with about 1/4 inch (.64 cm) of garden soil. Water the seedbed immediately after planting being careful not to wash the seeds out of their spots. Then mist the bed daily to keep it moist for the next 7 to 14 days until the seeds germinate. When the calendula seedlings are about 3 inches (7.62 cm) high, thin them so that the remaining plants are 8 to 12 inches (20.32 to 30.48 cm) apart.
Best Companion Plants and Plants that Hinder:
Companions are cucumber, tomato, peas, carrot, asparagus, radish, parley, and thyme. The most hindering would be sage and potato.

Growing Instructions

Crop Maintenance

Cut blossoms as they fade to encourage the plants to produce additional blooms. If calendulas are too long stemmed and lying down on the soil, you can simply use a string to tie the stems together with a central support.
Moisture Requirements & Solutions:
Water the plants as needed to keep the soil moist, but be careful not to overwater. The soil should not be soaking wet. Water it once a week if the plant is in open ground. In a pot, you have to water it more often due to evaporation.
Weeding Needs & Solutions:
Add mulch around your calendula for a neater appearance, to retain moisture, and to minimize weeds.
Feeding Needs/Optimal Natural Fertilizers:
They should not require any additional fertilizer because the compost should provide enough nutrients to help the plants continue blooming for the remainder of the growing season.
Pests, Diseases & Solutions:
The biggest challenge in growing calendula is that they are prone to insects and plant disease. Aphids are the most common insect problem, however, they can be easily treated with a horticultural soap. The most common disease affecting calendula is mildew, which occurs most commonly under hot, humid or rainy weather conditions. Mildew can be treated with a natural fungicide so the plant can keep feeding you the blossoms in salads and such.
When to Harvest/Number of days to maturity:
Try to keep up with picking the flowers throughout the first half of the summer. As summer gives way to fall, let more of the heads go to seed to collect them and allow them to reseed.
How to Harvest:
The easiest way to pick your calendula is by placing your index and middle finger on either side of the stem, right at the base of the bract (green sticky base of the flower). Then, just pull as the flower head will pop off from the rest of the plant. If some of the stem comes, that’s just fine too, discard it because it’s easiest to use and dry without the stem.
Optimal Storage temperature and conditions:
To dry your calendula blossoms, give them a little dust off to let the little buggies escape. Then, set them upside down on a mesh rack or woven basket to air dry or pop them in the dehydrator on super low for a few hours to help jump start the process to avoid mildew in damp air regions. Store your dried flower blossoms in an air- tight container or glass jar. Fresh or cooked, there are so many different varieties and petal arrangements you can’t get bored with it. Add them into salads, pastas, drinks, sprinkles to garnish pastries, or add to goat and cream cheeses. Just be sure to pull them from the sticky bract (the green part at the base of the flower).
Optimal Preserving Procedures:
Seed Saving:
You can use the dead-headed seeds to reproduce plants. Take the seed head off and allow to dry out in a dish, then store in an envelope ready for planting in the spring. Select a place in your garden for calendula where they can grow undisturbed for many years since they drop their seeds and will reseed your flowerbed year after year.

Harvest and Storage

Notes

To transplant calendula from overwintered plants, choose a sunny well-drained place. Then plant 8 calendula per square meter (10 square feet) and give a lot of water to favor the growth. Chickens love to peck at the flower heads and the petals. Calendula can be used as a trap crop for aphids. Because of the sticky sap that it excretes, aphids love it while the neighbor plants next to it are untouched.

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