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.