Direct-sow easily
Calendula is happy sown right where it'll grow, after frost. Cover lightly — it likes darkness to germinate.
The skin-salve flower is one of the easiest to grow — quick, cheerful and forgiving. From seed to bloom in one season.
Calendula is happy sown right where it'll grow, after frost. Cover lightly — it likes darkness to germinate.
Full sun to part shade and any decent soil. Water to establish; it's not fussy at all.
Blooms in 6–8 weeks from sowing — one of the quickest medicinal herbs to reward you.
Deadhead and harvest petals often; it flowers harder the more you pick, right until frost.
Calendula is one of ten medicinal herbs worth growing — Nicole Apelian's Medicinal Garden Kit gives you all ten as non-GMO seeds with her full grow-and-remedy guide.
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