Marigolds did not work for the big green hornworm.
I think the chemical they secrete into the soils, is for the things like root nemotode..
My mother had them all over the garden, and I thought she liked them......When I was grown and she was gone, I found out she had used the old ways, that we are searching for now.
We cook [Mom and I] a little different than the rest of the family, and I thought that it was due to lack of money and maybe education.
One of the first sites that I found on the internet, was a Cherokee cookbook, and in it were almost all of my mothers recipes.
she was a full blooded Cherokee and my dad a half blood, when we moved to California, in the 1930’s, we became Spanish -Irish. I guess they thought they would be accepted better that way.
My brother and I laugh, as we are “Indian” and knew it before we knew we were or what tribe we should be in.
I suspect that my mom used the old ways for her garden.
I’ve heard marigolds are useful for keeping rabbits away. They don’t like the smell or something.