Healthy Life: Are You in Need of Some Strategic Deadheading?

By: Ian Sane

When the lady at my local nursery told me she had just “deadheaded” the marigolds I was buying to plant around the perimeter of my vegetable garden to discourage rabbits and groundhogs, I had never heard of that term. Granted, I am a novice when it comes to gardening, so I asked what that was. She explained it just meant pinching or cutting off the dead flowers so the plant wasn’t wasting its energy on blooms that no longer needed to be nourished. Besides making the plant look more attractive, one of the benefits of deadheading is that the bloom …read more