which end of the marigold seed do you plant down ?

Question

someone told me that the black end of the seed is to be up with the fibre end down. !!

Answer 1

Don't worry, just drop them flat or however they fall. I've always grown them and that is fine. It would take forever to plant the seeds up and down and you definitely don't need to! There isn't a wrong way. I just scatter them down the furrow and thin them when they come up if needed. They are great, easy flowers to grow.

Answer 2

Sow seeds directly into the garden bed after all danger of spring frost is past. Dig down into the soil about 8 or 10 inches with a trowel or shovel and turn it over to loosen and aerate it. If the soil is thin mix in some organic matter such as peat moss, compost or chopped leaves to improve its drainage and ability to hold moisture. Break up any large soil clumps, then smooth and level the area. Sprinkle seeds on the soil as recommended on the seed packet label and cover with a thin layer of soil. Keep soil moist.

When sprouts are a few inches tall, thin them by pulling up the weaker, overcrowded ones, to allow space for the remaining ones to grow.

Answer 3

It won't matter. Plant it either way. Most people simply scatter the seeds, and then scatter a little soil thinly on top, pat gently, and wait.

My marigolds self-seed. The only thing I do to "help them out" is, inthe fall, when the plants have died and they are skeletons of their former selves, with dried seeds pods held up in the air, I trample the plants, and walk back and forth over them to break them up and help release the seeds out of the poods and get them scattered around.

Then late next srping, they come shooting up. I'll trnasplnat some of them, thin some, leave some to grow where they sprouted.

Answer 4

It does not matter I have just started planting my seeds left from last year, the only thing I do is put them in a pot a sprinkle a layer of dirt on them they pretty much do everything else them selves.Very easy plant to start and you will be rewarded with new seeds in the fall.

Answer 5

Just lay the seed on the soil surface