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How To Pot On Tagetes Seedlings

Tagetes plants, or marigolds, add sunny colour to your garden and can grow in many different types of soil. Brona Keenan, a gardener at Pitmedden Gardens in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, shows you how to pot on its seedlings. Enlarge

How To Pot On Tagetes Seedlings

Tagetes plants, or marigolds, add sunny colour to your garden and can grow in many different types of soil. Brona Keenan, a gardener at Pitmedden Gardens in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, shows you how to pot on its seedlings.

You Will Need

  • tagetes seedlings
  • modules for potting
  • garden compost
  • 1 pencil

Method

Gently extract the seedlings using a pencil or dibber and holding on to the cotyledon. Make a hole in the compost in one of the modules and place the seedling in. Gently press the seedling in around the sides with your pencil or dibber, firming the soil on top.