[sunshineband]

i know i'm daft (you don't have to tell me) but in the flower border i like to stick to a restrained and hopefully 'tasteful' colour palette. but in the veg garden i love all the bright colours for the bees and butterflies so red and yellow calendula, orange daisies, the ones that open in the sun (can't remember the name) and mixed californian poppies that i wouldn't use elsewhere.

silly really cos the gardens small and you can see it all at once anyway

Are they osteospermums perhaps? 

[Aunt Sally]

or mesembryanthemums (livingstone dasies) ?

[Lazy Daisy]

I grow 'um coz it reminds me of my Grannie

[sunshineband]

I grow 'um coz it reminds me of my Grannie

Best reason of all 

[peapod]

why not somebody find some actual facts themselves

I would like to add that many people are extremely experienced as they have learnt facts as they go along, simply by trial and error. And in many cases over a lot of years.   Im sure you have done the same thing in your experiences with your job. Just because its says it on a research paper somewhere on the net doesnt make it true..after all its research. Initial findings dont necessarily show long term benefits.
 If this turns out to work and people start using it then you would know about it straight away from this forum.  We have many experts as well as newbies, and the whole spectrum in between.

[sunshineband]

why not somebody find some actual facts themselves

I would like to add that many people are extremely experienced as they have learnt facts as they go along, simply by trial and error. And in many cases over a lot of years.   Im sure you have done the same thing in your experiences with your job. Just because its says it on a research paper somewhere on the net doesnt make it true..after all its research. Initial findings dont necessarily show long term benefits.
 If this turns out to work and people start using it then you would know about it straight away from this forum.  We have many experts as well as newbies, and the whole spectrum in between.

 

[Trillium]

Here's some substantiated government findings published on paper as well as the net on the pros and cons of marigolds. As you can see, the cons outweigh the pros. These experiments would have been done in small test fields scattered around the province. Mustard is still the seed of choice to cleanse fallow soil.

[Yabba]

i know i'm daft (you don't have to tell me)

Ok :roll:

¥

[peterjf]

marigolds and poached egg plants attract the preditors of the insect world , in turn the preditors munch away on the aphids , greebflys , small catapillars haha haha haha

[george007]

why not somebody find some actual facts themselves

I would like to add that many people are extremely experienced as they have learnt facts as they go along, simply by trial and error. And in many cases over a lot of years.   Im sure you have done the same thing in your experiences with your job. Just because its says it on a research paper somewhere on the net doesnt make it true..after all its research. Initial findings dont necessarily show long term benefits.
 If this turns out to work and people start using it then you would know about it straight away from this forum.  We have many experts as well as newbies, and the whole spectrum in between.

lol i'm not arguing

if i had listened to all the doom merchants on the allotment where i am
who all have many years experience.
they all told me nematodes don't work , that i would need to buy slug pellets .
i listened knowing full well they do work
and they are working , i don't suffer any slug problems,

so i'm used to the fact that everybody has their own opinion

but i do laugh as one person says the slugs never touch their marigolds

another says they use as a tasty treat  for their slugs to munch on .

nothing like a wide range of opinions
very helpful indeed:)

[Aunt Sally]

Not much we can teach you here is there George 

[matron]

I get my french marigolds from Aldi and plant them in pots in the greenhouse with my tomatoes. I haven't had any whitefly in them but on my front room windowsill with no marigolds I had whitefly on my peppers.
This to me says that something was keeping those critters at bay 

[peapod]

lol i'm not arguing

if i had listened to all the doom merchants on the allotment where i am
who all have many years experience.
they all told me nematodes don't work , that i would need to buy slug pellets .
i listened knowing full well they do work
and they are working , i don't suffer any slug problems,

so i'm used to the fact that everybody has their own opinion

but i do laugh as one person says the slugs never touch their marigolds

another says they use as a tasty treat  for their slugs to munch on .

nothing like a wide range of opinions
very helpful indeed:)

I think we'd all agree that nematodes do work, and old timers and new timers in some cases do have their own ways and means..nothing wrong with that of course. Its a shame we cant all afford them.
And then you'll find some who only quote pages from a website or another and present it as facts..coupled with a sorry shake of the head at all these people (from all over the world which offers a different perspective may I add?) who know nothing.  I know which I found most helpful.   Im wondering if you find this amusing and a little twee and strange why you are here in the first place? Or is it to pass on your wondrous websearching  knowledge to all and sundry?
But lol Im not arguing

[george007]

i'm sorry i must be in the wrong place
i was told this was a friendly forum

from my very first post on growing long carrots

the first answer wondered if i was drunk and wondered if i just felt the urge to write something

the second person
wrote in bold letters
not impressed

i attacked back venomously as i wondered
why all the negativity

apparantley i misunderstood what was said .
like hell i did

and you have been unfriendly ever since .

yes i am now enjoying myself your such likeable people:)

[peapod]

And I also thought that there was some replies that werent necessary myself..if you remember I was the first positive reply to that thread and was very impressed also by another posters reply that said it was a good idea to keep kids interested..
However you have since then come across as rather hard to understand at times and slightly patronising...possibly because you have cut and pasted a lot of your info as facts and not a possible way to introduce a new idea, there seemed to be no communication with you, just a set idea
I can see in a that it was a bad start that I personally hoped wouldnt put you off, but please dont lol at people who probably know more than you or I will ever do