5 Reasons to plant marigolds with your tomato plants
While tomatoes are incredibly fruitful to grow, like everything else in life, they are not without their dangers. We don’t just like tomatoes. There are other animals, birds, insects, and soil-borne problems that love these vibrant, tasty plants.
It is also true that tomatoes are preferred by other plants. You can help them develop useful relationships.
Subsidiary Planting - Coexistence Relationships
You may have seen an example of a symbiotic relationship in a documentary or on a nature show. It can be a beautiful, majestic sea turtle that goes to a certain place every year. Interestingly, many different types of fish come out to clean it. Or, a giant, deadly shark with a small fish swimming in its mouth and around it. They clean its teeth!
These are just two examples of the unique symbiotic relationships in the wild.
Plants do it too
Incredibly, plants have many properties that help their neighbors.
A plant can be a nitrogen fixer. This means it takes nitrogen from the atmosphere and makes it available to the soil, improving the absorption of nitrogen for all the plants around it.
Or a plant may have long, deep, hard roots that help break up the soil. This allows nutrients to be released, and they are available to shallow-rooted plants.
Like wildlife, some plants are not good friends. A plant grows aggressively, absorbs all available nutrients and water, and spreads everywhere. It mainly suppresses nearby, less invasive plants. Another plant will attract deer or rabbits to the garden. Later hungry species do not distinguish and eat other valuable plants during arrival.
As for the marigold, they do many friendly things in the garden.
5 Reasons to Grow Marigold in Your Tomato Plants
1. Marigold flowers attract bees and other tomato beneficial insects.
Who does not love the beautiful butterflies, bees, ladybugs, and other beneficial little animals that visit the tomato garden?
It is best to help with pollination, yes! In addition, marigolds attract many pests, such as aphids and caterpillars.
2. Marigolds act as a “trap crop” for snails and snails
Snails and snails love tomatoes. You may not know they are there until you go to pick your juicy plump fruit. Then you can see the soft, thin holes and the thin traces left by these night robbers.
Fortunately, they love marigolds even more, which makes marigolds a useful "trap crop" for snails and snails. The airy, fig-like marigold leaves are searched and destroyed in the early morning by slugs and snails.
3. Marigolds prevent animal tomato pests.
The strong odors produced by marigolds often deter other garden pests such as rabbits, deer, cats, and snakes. Well, I do not know if snakes eat tomatoes, but as far as I am concerned they are far from the veg patch.
4. Marigolds help keep the soil healthy.
For those who grow tomatoes in agriculture and at home, root-knot nematodes can infect tomato plants. They also harass some nightshade relatives such as peppers and eggplant.
Marigold can be very effective in this situation. They catch and destroy parasitic root nodule nematodes. Plant marigolds well in infected areas. The toxins in marigold roots kill the nematode before it can grow and reproduce.
5. Marigold prevents tomato worms.
There are many worms and caterpillars that love tomatoes. Large moths begin their life as scary tomato hornworms.
Twice the way marigolds help prevent these pests.
First, their pungent odor is thought to repel moths, preventing them from laying eggs. Second, marigolds attract many beneficial insects, including tomato hornworms and other annoying worms and parasitic wasps that are harmful to caterpillars.
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