My patio string lights came down at 3 AM and took out the tomato trellis
Last Tuesday we had that surprise wind gust, the kind that hits right after you finally fall asleep. I heard this loud snap and then a crash. Ran out in my boxers and there was the whole mess, 40 feet of lights wrapped around 6 tomato plants, two of the stakes snapped clean off. The lights were up for 8 months with zip ties and cup hooks, thought they were solid. I used those cheap plastic clip hooks from the hardware store, probably should have gone with the screw-in eyelets instead. Rebuilt the trellis with some old cedar fence pickles I had lying around and put the lights back up with rope, not zip ties. Has anyone else had a backyard setup fail in a way that took out something totally unrelated? What did you switch to that actually held?