الاثنين، 21 مارس 2011

Growing Calendula


Growing Calendula.....................


Cultivation of Calendula / Marigold

Site: Grow Calendula in a fine clay in a sunny location. Calendula how rich, well drained soil but are very tolerant of average to slightly poor soils. Improve your soil quality will produce much healthier plants and flowers, so add plenty of compost. Add a general purpose fertilizer once a month.

Propagation: Calendula are grown from seed. Sow early in the season and just covered with 1 / 4 "of potting soil. They are easy to germinate and grow quickly, their first of a continuous display of flowers by mid-summer.

Select a location in your garden, where they can grow undisturbed for years and years, as these flowers to drop their seeds and reseed your flowerbeds every year. Space plants 15 "apart.

Growing: Once your Calendula is established, it should grow well, even when unattended. Water during dry periods once or twice a week. Add mulch around the plants to keep weeds.

In early summer, plants will start to produce large blooms on long stems and will continue to produce flowers after the first light frost.

Calendula is a somewhat hardy. It will not be harmed by a light frost either in spring or autumn. It refers to succumb to heavy frosts or freezes however.

Harvesting: How to choose the flowers for indoor arrangements, look carefully at the stem and the undersides of leaves for aphids. Pick dead flowers to keep the plant looking tidy and to encourage new blooms. Picking flowers, when open and allows for young.

Culinary uses: with flowers to give rich saffron color and a slight spicy taste (not saffron flavor), rice, fish and meat soups, soft cheese, yogurt, butter, omelettes, milk dishes, cakes and sweet breads. Add 1 teaspoon of flowers on fish and game dishes. Garnish meat platters, pate and fruit salad.

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