Deadhead spent blooms weekly by cutting stems back to the main branch to encourage bigger, better flowers. Water deeply once or twice a week and feed with a low-nitrogen, high-phosphorus fertilizer to ...

Deadheading dahlias regularly is key to a long, vigorous blooming season. Fading blooms should be deadheaded as soon as the flower centers start opening. Making deep cuts when deadheading encourages a ...

Dahlias are breathtakingly gorgeous flowers which appear in every colour and are relatively easy to grow. They are best planted in a warm part of your garden as they need around six to eight hours of ...

Deadheading is the gardening term used for the removal of faded or dead flowers from plants. It is an important task to keep up within the garden throughout the growing season. Deadheading is ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

A common deed in the August garden is what gardeners call “deadheading.” This somewhat morbid term is a form of plant-cutting that involves snipping or pinching off flowers after they’ve finished ...

Deadheading is an important task for any flower garden, but there's a right time and wrong time to do this task, depending on what you are growing.