Pinching back annuals promotes fuller plants and more blooms by encouraging branching. Start pinching when plants are young and around 6 inches tall to allow time for recovery. Avoid pinching ...

Annual flowers add almost instant color and greenery to our gardens. However, many annuals can become spindly and produce fewer blooms than expected unless they are pinched back. It may seem ...

When we finally have long-lasting, colorful blooms outside, the last thing most of us want to do is cut them back. But come late spring and early summer, many gardeners are pinching back their new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of my taller flowers last summer grew too tall and flopped over. Can I pinch these back next year to control height without ...

Taller growing perennials are nice additions to larger landscape beds and borders until they flop over. This detracts from the plants’ beauty and the garden’s appearance. And flopping plants fall onto ...

Some of my taller flowers last summer grew too tall and flopped over. Can I pinch these back next year to control height without losing flowers? Most types of annual and perennial flowers can be ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am interested in growing hot peppers so this year I purchased vegetable grow bags with handles, planted various types of hot peppers and placed the grow bags on my parent’s ...