6 Reasons Why You Should Grow Marigolds🏵️ in your Garden

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Marigold is a common garden plant and comes in stunning shades of yellow, orange, or red. It is popularly grown in home gardens worldwide and is known to stand for creativity, courage, and passion. Here are some amazing Marigold Benefits in the Garden and why you must grow it!

1. Easy to Grow

Marigold is very easy to grow and care for, which explains why so many gardeners worldwide choose to have it in their garden. The flower can thrive in a wide range of soil types, needs moderate watering, and does best in full sun.

2. Protects Against Harmful Nematodes

Marigold is known to produce certain natural chemicals that help protect your home garden against nematodes. These roundworms can cause severe damage to other plants in your garden.

3. Help Attract Bees

Having Marigold blooming in your garden is one of the best ways to attract the bees, which can greatly help other plants in your garden to pollinate.

4. Attracts Beneficial Insects

You already know that Marigolds help with pest control and attract bees, but what you surely don’t know is the fact that the plant also attracts beneficial insects such as butterflies, ladybugs, hoverflies, parasitic mini-wasps.
The “Lemon Gem” Marigolds with clusters of yellow flowers is an edible herb, which is quite potent in attracting these insects.

5. Helps Eliminating Cabbage Moths

Cabbage moths can be quite a headache for your garden as they can destroy all vegetable crops and can be extremely difficult to get rid of, too. So, if you plan to grow cabbages, do make sure that you are growing 2-3 marigolds around it and watch the moths go away!

6. Attracts Butterflies

Marigolds, with their beautiful flower and nectar, attract butterflies, making them perfect plants in the garden. Butterflies are not only a joy to look at, but they also help in promoting pollination.


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