If I cut down a dogwood and put a raised bed on the town right-of-way right by the road, I think I might can get one spot that gets pretty darn close to 6 hours of sun a day. Not big - maybe a 10 or 12'x3' bed. If so, that would be the one place I might be able to grow tomatoes and/or dahlias. (Gawd, I love dahlias, hard as they are to keep sufficiently fed and watered.)

This year, I'm going to grow a couple of tomatoes in containers in that spot and see how they do.   If they do well, then dahlias would also do well. It occurs to me that tomatoes and dahlias have similar water and fertilization needs, and I'm wondering what it would look like to alternate tomato vines with large dahlias, especially varieties with those lovely dark red leaves.    Either really good or really-ahem- "interesting." What do ya'll think?

I'm not sure if they are susceptible to similar deseases and pests.   Never had much problem with disease with the dahlias, but earwigs were pretty hard on the blooms. Have had nothing but problems with disease and pests in the tomato department.