stocks flowers

Question

to encourage new blooms it says to dead head. Where or how far down do you cut back?
deer have eaten the top off several of the plants and they haven’t produced any more leaves or flowers therefore I’m hesitant to cut back the seed pods that are now forming on some of the plants. I was hoping to have color all summer long not just bloom once and done.

Answer 1

Cut the stem down to the base of the plant.