"Vox Humana" wrote in message
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The sale of those those tomato cages is aimed at the same type
of
person
who
buys a Chrysler mini-van. Hopefully, the customer learns their
lesson
and
never goes back. And no self respecting Large Plant (dahlia,
tomato)
will
last long in such a cage. Finally, the fastening method you used
had
absolutely ZERO reasons to be successful.


Live and learn. In the past I just let them sprawl. They did
fine,
but
it
was messy. I was thinking about the wire fence method that you
mentioned.
I'm sure it would be far superior to the tomato cage. The biggest
problem
wasn't that the cages fell over, but that they weren't tall
enough.



The rolls of fence wire come in 4', 5' and 6' heights. I use 5' for
tomatoes. I haven't grown big dahlias in years, so I don't recall
how
huge
they get.

Mine were at 6 feet when they were blown over.



Holy smokes! Were the flower stems nice & straight? If so, maybe you
should
be supplying local florists. :-)

I don't have enough to bother with. There is a farmer near by that has a
huge cutting garden where he operates a farm stand. No dahlias, but lots
of
other stuff.



Haven't you learned the rules of gardening excess? :-)