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Marigold Planting Calculator

Tagetes spp.

Everything you need to plan Marigold: recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.

At a glance

Recommended spacing
12″
Range 8–18″
Planting pattern
Intensive bed
Time to first production
60 days from sowing
Succession planting
Recommended
Every 28 days
Start indoors
4 weeks before
before last frost
Production pattern
Cut-and-come-again
Pinch

Plan your Marigold beds

Prefilled with Marigold's recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.

Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 12″Range 8–18″

Your plan

200
Total plants
Based on 1 plants/sq ft at 12″ spacing
Seeds to start (10% buffer)
221
72-cell trays needed
4
128-cell trays needed
2

More Marigold planning

Planning notes

  • Corralling
  • Landscape fabric
  • Pinching

Cut-and-come-again. A planting keeps producing new stems over a relatively long harvest period when it is picked regularly, so successive plantings are usually spaced farther apart.

  • Pinching is commonly used in this production system.
  • Corralling for structural support is commonly used.
  • Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.

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