What flowers grow well with vegetables?
Plant flowers such as calendula or cornflowers amongst your crops to attract pollinating insects, which will help the flowers set fruit. Sow spring onions amongst your carrots – the smell of onion deters carrot root fly. The smell of carrots also deters onion fly from onions. I honestly wouldn’t do it any other way, always plant vegetables and flowers together. Flowers help attract pollinators and beneficial insects, some could distract other insects and keep them away from your vegetables. Plus many herbs and vegetables are also beautiful plants.
What annual flowers spread quickly?
Get a jump-start on spring planting with quick growing annual flowers to grow from seed, like marigolds, zinnias, and sunflowers. Annuals are a surefire way to quickly add a pop of color to containers, window boxes and bare spots in flower beds. Flowers from seed Choose hardy annuals such as sunflowers, poppies, cornflowers and pot marigolds – they all germinate quickly and are easy to grow. Bees and butterflies love them too! This also makes a great activity to do with children in a greenhouse on wet days.