My Most Favorite Rose, "Peace"

I got seven tree roses in September, 2016 from Home Depot on sale and one of them was a Peace rose. 

The Peace rose became my most favorite rose of all. I love the fabulous sweet fragrance and the color: yellow with soft rose-pink shadings.

This is a really beautiful rose with bloom changing colors while maturing. It’s fascinating to watch day to day.

 The flowers are huge and gorgeous!

A strong storm broke the Peace rose last year, but it recovered miraculously after the broken part was supported with tape. I’m looking forward more bloom this year.

Morning Glory Tower

Morning Glories are easy to grow from a seed all the way to a flower, but they don’t transplant so well. It's better to plant them directly in the ground.

I wanted to create a summer shade with morning glory. I built a tree-shaped trellis with a lumber and threads, and it worked very well. I planted mix seeds, and they grew aggressively, blooming from early summer to the first frost. Grandpa Ott bloomed early and the Heavenly Blue bloomed  late summer and early fall. They have tolerance for poor, dry soils, so I didn't take care them much, just watering.

2014

I didn't grow morning glory after 2014, but growing them just once resulted a lot of reseeding. They still pop up (in 2015 and 2016) under the fence where they were planted in 2014.


Heavenly Blue, Late summer in 2014

Harvesting Time-Juliet Tomato

I have had great success with Juliet. It's really a good producer and delicious.
Here are photos of my Juliet tomatoes in 2014 and 2015. I'm growing this variety this year, too.





I would say Juliet is one of the most productive tomatoes.







Compared to the cherry tomatoes, Juliet is much bigger.

I made tomato sauce, ratatouille, curry, juice and froze some.

Juliet Tomato

I love growing Juliet!

I'm growing this variety for three years now. The fruits are produced on grape-like clusters and crack resistant, all sized uniformly and beautiful. It's bigger than a grape tomato and similar to a Roma tomato. 

Some people don't like to grow long, vigorous vines, but I plant Juliet every year because just one plant produces tons of fruits.

Husky Cherry Red Tomato

The plant type of Husky Cherry Red tomato is dwarf indeterminate, so it's compact and short(maximum 3 to 4 feet) but bears a lot of fruits.

I planted this on June 2nd and have been very impressed with this beautiful plant. This plant has strong leaves and is very easy to grow.  

The first tomato is starting to get red. I'm going harvest this one when it's fully ripened.

So far, my tomatoes are doing great. I cant wait to harvest them all!