NOTE: I try to keep the cost with free shipping on small seed orders as low as possible by using first class letter mail without tracking. It works well, but sometimes is a little slow and very occasionally they don't show up at all. In order to be able to keep using this low cost service on Ebay, PLEASE do not open a case if you do not receive the seed order. There is no way for me to provide tracking for an open case, and they punish me for USPS mail failures. JUST MESSAGE ME DIRECTLY and let me know you haven't received them, and I'll resend them out for you. Look for the seeds (unless you pay for first class package with tracking) in your regular letter mail in a white envelope with a butterfly or flower sticker on it.
Giant African Marigold~ Orange and Yellow Mix
50 FRESH 2022 Seeds
These are third generation, fully organic, from our garden here. The first year we planted them, they had about 3" blooms. This year, many of the blooms were up to 5" in diameter! And the plants got so large, up to 4' tall some of them, that the branches would come off at the base, they were so loaded with blooms. So pruning may be necessary. The upside to the branches coming off is that you can put them in water for about a week or 2, and they will get roots on them, and you can plant them and have a whole full sized plant, already blooming from it. I created about 10 or 12 new plants this way this year.
The seeds are all recently harvested, fresh and with a close to 90% germination rate.
They have had NO pesticides or commercial fertilizers of any kind used on them. I use only compost, manure, bone and blood meal, and other natural fertilizers. I am absolutely against using ANY chemicals in my gardens!!
Marigolds are wonderful natural pest deterrents, for many different types of bugs that you DON'T want. They are also quite beautiful and these are spectacular. And are very easy to grow. They are also fully edible, quite nutritious, and have many different medicinal uses.
They are a summer annual that are to be sewn after the last frost date, if sewn outside. They require a warm, moist but well draining soil to germinate. You can germinate indoors a few weeks before last frost, and transplant outdoors once temperatures maintain at least the 40s at night. They <3 hot humid days and full sun. So plant them in your sunniest spot, with/among other sun loving plants like tomatoes, peppers, etc... or in your flower garden in the back.
Snip out the center of these when they get about a foot tall, and they will bush out more and not get quite as tall. And the more you cut them back, the more they will produce flowers. They will flower all the way through summer and into fall, all the way until the first frost.
I do not include tracking on shipping, unless you are combining these with another item/items, to keep the cost low. Seeds will be in a small plastic ziplock baggie.
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However, that said.... we are around these old things, and in old houses, and attics, and basements, and storage buildings...etc, all the time, and may not be as sensitive to these odors as someone who is not around them. So I may not smell anything, but you do. So if you do receive something and you are unable to remove the offending scent AFTER an additional cleaning, I will take the item back for refund.
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