+- Garden And Gossip Forums (https://gardenandgossip.org)
+-- Forum: Flowers and Ornamentals (https://gardenandgossip.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=44)
+--- Forum: All about Flowers and Ornamentals (https://gardenandgossip.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=45)
+--- Thread: Tagetes overwintering (/showthread.php?tid=1700)
Tagetes overwintering - Farendwoman - 19-09-2022
Anyone successfully overwintered tagetes?
Just discovered loads of self sown seedlings. Thought it might be worth a try to dig some up and keeping in an unheated greenhouse.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Small chilli - 19-09-2022
I’ve no idea. The ones I sowed a fortnight ago have germinated. So I’ll be joining you, in attempting to overwinter them.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Farendwoman - 19-09-2022
You’re on!
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Scarlet - 19-09-2022
I think they are more tender than calendula. They may make it in the greenhouse.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - JJB - 19-09-2022
I've a few french marigolds in the gh, we'll see how they get on.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Farendwoman - 19-09-2022
Looks like at least three of us are going to try to keep some tagetes going through the winter. Mine will be in a cold unheated greenhouse. (Husband says “if we’re limiting the heating for us, I’m buggered if we’re heating a greenhouse!).
I’d really like to keep a few going - they’re “Cinnabar”. A tall single red strain that came from a friend who got the seed from Great Dixter. Apparently (she says) they’re “special”.
I just think they’re pretty.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - JJB - 20-09-2022
(19-09-2022, 10:24 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: Looks like at least three of us are going to try to keep some tagetes going through the winter. Mine will be in a cold unheated greenhouse. (Husband says “if we’re limiting the heating for us, I’m buggered if we’re heating a greenhouse!).
I’d really like to keep a few going - they’re “Cinnabar”. A tall single red strain that came from a friend who got the seed from Great Dixter. Apparently (she says) they’re “special”.
I just think they’re pretty.
I can see your OH point of view
mine will be in a cold gh too, I only heat in early spring. TBH with our frost record, I don't hold out much hope. Although I do overwinter begonia semperflorens in the border soil. I lose some but many survive, usually the red ones.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Small chilli - 20-09-2022
Mine will be in a cold polytunnel.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Bren - 20-09-2022
I’ve got french marigolds in my GH border, lots of flower buds then dropped seeds laying around so will see how they do.
RE: Tagetes overwintering - Veggie - 20-09-2022
I'm feeling left out! Better find some tagetes seeds - I'm sure I have about a thousand of them somewhere.