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Rebecca Rizzotti
I started my own calendula plants from seed this spring, and now they’re flowering (and I’m very excited)! However, I also have a new yarrow plant, and I was told by an experienced herbalist friend that I shouldn’t harvest the flowers the first year but should give the plant time to focus on strengthening itself first. Would it be the same for Calendula, or can I go ahead and harvest and use the flowers?
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Greg Boggs
I harvested my yarrow the first year and now its absolutely taking over my garden box this year! I also harvested my calendula first year as well. I don’t know about if its better to wait a year or not but I don’t really have the time to wait more than a year to grow my medicine, if anything is to be harvested the second year, I wildcraft it
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Thank you!
If you’re comfortable sharing, what general area/state do you live in? Temperatures might make a difference for me, if the plants would be under more stress.
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Over in Washington state, zone 6b
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Ah, okay! I’m in zone 9b, so maybe the heat would affect it differently–either speed up the growth, or slow it down due to heat stress, I’m not sure. I’ll go ahead and begin harvesting it and see what happens! Thank you!
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Geneva Bivens
Hi Rebecca,
Calendula is an annual that will self seed if you don’t harvest the flowers. Harvest away! If you want it to self seed, just leave some flowers to produce seed nearer the end of your growing season.
Yarrow – as long as you only harvest 25-30% off the top (flowers and leaves) leaving the rest of the plant mass and roots intact it won’t skip a beat in my experience. I’ve done that every year since I planted the yarrow that I have growing and it is thriving.
(I’m in MI, zone 6a).
Hope that helps. Have fun gardening and harvesting your beautiful herbs!
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Thank you so much, Geneva! I’ll begin cutting the calendula then, and look forward to making things with it! 🙂
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Ramany John
Hi Rebecca,
New student here. I started growing calendula for the first-time last year (zone 7a) and harvested all flowers from the beginning. But I left some at the end of the season, and I have more plants this year that I did not even plant!
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Hello, Ramany–welcome!
That’s wonderful. Thank you for sharing that with me! I will definitely let some of mine go to seed as well.
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