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A Plot Full of Herbs - Sweet Mace - Tagetes Lucida

11/10/2011

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 Sweet Mace  is one of the Mexican Tagetes,  the best known plants of the Tagetetes species, in  England, are African and  French Tagetes. They all orginated in Central  and South America and were used  in healing and ritual ceremonies. T. Lucida is  also known as Mexican Tarragon.

I will be  growing this plant for the first time next Spring.  It is a tender herbaceous perennial but I may treat it as a half hardy annual so I will pot the plants up  in winter and put them in a frost free cold  frame.

The seeds are sown in early spring in a  greenhouse or on a window  ledge.  They need a temperature of 20 degrees C and  the germination  takes  between two to three weeks.They can be sown outside  once the ground has warmed up in late Spring.  In Summer I must remember to pinch out  the growing tip to  get bushy plants.  Apparently  the plants need a long growing season.  French marigolds germinate really well a light sprinkling of seed in a pot or modules will produce hundreds of sturdy plantlets I do not know yet if sweet mace is as easy to grow.
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The aniseed  scented leaves of Sweet Mace are used as a  Tarragon substitute  for seasoning soups, sauces and herbal butters.  The dried  leaves and small yellow-orange  flowers can also be used to make an aniseed tea.  The strong root secretion repels wire worms and supresses weeds such as ground  elder and couch grass.  This herb is also reputed to  deter  many common insect pests  so it  will  makes an ideal companion plant for my tomato, squash  and potato crops.

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    Merry B

    I am a Reiki Druid and I have an allotment by the sea where I grow herbs. flowers, vegetables. and fruit.   My plot is my haven and retreat.

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