The purpose of preliminary research. 1. It helps you to narrow your topic by finding out how much information is out there and, therefore, what is do-able within the page-limits you have been assigned. 2. It helps you get an idea of which specific aspects of your topic you will want to do more detailed reading about.
Thank you for reporting this comment. Deer love tomato plants. And they can be very bold, they will walk right up next to the house and eat yew or rhododendron foundation plantings, as well as any tomato plants or other goodies they find. You need a high fence or some other deterrent to keep them out.
We've got to do some re-arranging in front of our house which is full south facing. I have a few ruby loropetalum hidden away in the outer garden and I'd like to bring one inside the fence. (Deer eat them, so the ones outside the fence are practically buried behind other shrubs and ornamental grasses.). just checked the ones that I have hidden from the deer and they are blooming for the first time since they were planted in fall 2005. I want to combine 'Ruby Star' echinacea and pink muhly with the loropetalum.