This will soon be us, but with tomato cages. Those legs NEVER go straight into the ground without hitting an old fallout shelter or a meteor or a Mt. Rushmore face.

That's the annual placing of peony rings for us.

That cartoon is by Bil Keane

Bil Keane - Wikipedia

I had a dream about the opposite situation last night. I stuck in one of my tall tomato stakes and could feel an enormous gopher-created cavern below.

Yep Polly! I recognized his style before I noticed his name.

ProfPaperclip - you remind me of a nightmare I sometimes have, where there's a HUGE cavern underneath the house and yard. I fell into it once through a crack in the garage.