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)