falling over

[carolineholding]

I love growing annuals but one of my issues is some of them do like to topple over, particularly after rainy and windy weather. Is there anything I can do about this?

I'm fairly new to gardening and to my garden, I wonder if the trick is as the years go by and my beds fill up a bit and aren't quite as patchy they won't have the space to topple over? I suppose the obvious thing would be to construct supports but I would like to avoid that if at all possible.

Any suggestions and solutions are most welcome!
Thanks in advance

[Bren In Pots]

Try adding a few twigs/pea-sticks in amongst your plants if you don't want to use metal supports.

[Bill HH]

I grow large daisy plants which can reach 3 or 4ft, they nearly always fall over in the end. So what i do is reduce their height after they have reach about 1ft I cut them down to 4 inches in the spring/ early summer. I does make them a bit later than they would have been but they also send out more shoots giving more flowers. Another way is to put a cane in behind them where you cant see it and use this to tie green twine round the whole bunch and back to the cane, its hardly visible. Avoid giving them too much nitrogen also helps. maybe meat and bone meal.

[Glutton4...]

I saw a very effective idea at an open garden I visited earlier this year. The Gardener had pushed in Hazel prunings at around eighteen inch spacings, just inside the edge of the border. To these he tied horizontal rails of hazel prunings, tied with garden twine. Think post and rail fence, with one rail, but in miniature! Mostly hidden by the plants, and only visible if you looked.

I will be stealing the idea myself.