Metchosin Farm Mix

Calendula officinalis

A member of the marigold family, this cheerful and brightly-coloured annual produces beautiful edible and medicinal blooms in shades ranging from deep orange to pale cream. Jazz up your cuisine, adding the cheerful petals to salads, quiches or herbal teas, or enjoy them as a long lasting cut flower. Easy to grow and self-seeds well. A Metchosin Farm Original selected over 20 years.

Certified Organic

Growing instructions

Direct seed in early spring or start seedlings for a later transplant. 12" between plants, 36" between rows. For a new flush of fall blooms, either sow later until early summer, or try a heavy pruning on some of your plants in mid-summer to give new growth.