Garden Tips: Deadheading your flowers

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Friends, You can prolong the flowering of your favorite plants by a procedure called deadheading.

When blossoms die it gives the plant the idea its job of producing flowers is done. So it stops blooming and puts its energy into setting seeds.

You can trick it into thinking its job is not finished by deadheading--or pinching off the dead blossoms before seeds form.If there are still buds on the stems, just remove the dead flower head.

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