Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...
(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...