Re: [gardeners] Tagetes
TAREE9595@aol.com (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:26:01 EST
In a message dated 11/28/98 6:58:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, asidv@fbg.net
writes:
> Taree wrote:
> > The deer don't like the stink weed variety either. They must know
> something.
>
> Soon after moving to the Texas Hill country, being told deer didn't
> like marigolds, I planted a flat of what the local nursery called
> Marimums -- a kind of marigold that was thrifty, ie, would decently
> dropp its blooms as they were spent.
Well the only ones I have used for this are the shrub varieties and the deer
have never even nibbled. Ofcourse I only plant them on clients lots
WAYYYYYYYYy away from the house so they dont have to smell them as they are
yucky.
Taree (Landscape Contractor/CA)