Rain, rain and more rain...yea!

I can only hope that the rest of the country is receiving some of these thunderstorms full of rain that we are getting everyday here in South Florida.  With the cloud coverage and the wet weather, I am praying the vegetable seedlings I planted this past weekend have an excellent chance to get past the initial growing phase without burning.  I would rather give baby plants away because of too many than have none sprout.  So with that said, the orchids seem to love their new homes in the trees.  Here are a few in bloom today.

This little no name beauty is blooming for the first time.
Sunshine!

More orchids in the guava tree

Blushing dendrobium just keeps on blooming
Ain't she dainty!?!

If the flower spikes grew any longer, we would end up hitting it with the car as we pull in the driveway, lol.
This one is attached to the Christmas palm tree in the front yard.

Another no name epidendrum orchid in the Desert
Cassia tree.  One major draw back to putting orchids
in the trees is the tags usually disappear.  No good way
to attach tags...anyone have ideas??? :))

You can see how fast the roots have grown
once the orchid is established, they really take off!  Then you know they are happy!

When I saw these little cuties, I thought of the twins, Castor & Pollux, lol,
if anyone knows their Greek mythology and/or their constellations :)
I can see them from my home office window in the Beautyberry shrub.

Well that's about it for today my friends.  Stay healthy and happy!

South Florida Vegetable Garden in August

Which door did I walk through, huh huh...well I'm sure you could guess, the back door to the vegetable garden. Still super duper hot here after Hurricane Irene left us.  I sowed the seeds directly into the ground this time so if the seeds burn out my saving grace is I still have half of my seeds left.  The season is long here so I can do another planting with out missing the season, though I will sow them in seed trays first then transplant.

Here is my heirloom vegetable garden.  The seeds
that are sown here: corn, tomatillo, & three different
tomatoes.

Another view, I also put the dragon fruit and papaya in the ground.  No more pots! LOL ;)

Here are the heirloom 'stars & moon' watermelons
Oops, need another bag of mulch.

The new outdoor furniture my Dad gave us.

You would never know it by looking at this picture but
I cut everything back and weeded out alot of overgrowth.
Huge pile for pick up tomorrow lol!

Stay dirty my friends....stay dirty! :))

To surf or work in the vegetable garden...hmmmm

The waves have been small but clean and fun to go surfing.  Yesterday was a blast but surprisingly super sauna hot!  Hmmmm walk out the front door to surf or walk out the back door to garden.  Will check back to let you know which door I went through. lol  ;))

Deerfield Beach 'No Trespass' surf spot

Joe & Harly paddling out

Getting prepared for fall vegetable planting :))

My dormant vegetable garden, will be working on
preparing the beds for the new seeds I ordered
yesterday from Seed Savers Exchange.

Ready to sow the soil :))
This year's heirloom tomatoes are 'Black from Tula', 'Hillbilly  Potato Leaf' and 'Isis Candy'. The rest are Purple OG Tomatillo's, 'Moon & Stars' Watermelon, Dwarf Grey Sugar Peas, Paris Market Carrots, Long Red Florence Onions and Stowell's Evergreen OG Corn.  OG = organic

So cheers to an abundant harvest for chez Sheri's garden, hopefully will be able to share to bounty this year!!

Random thoughts in August

This super awesome gem of an orchid lost its
identity at a nursery so they sold it to me for
$20 & it was is full bloom with these gorgeous
4" flowers.

Now it has a great home hanging in the Simson Stopper
tree.  You can see the new orchid additions
mounted to the tree in the background.

As you know I started relocating my orchids
from their pots to the landscape.  I am sure
they will be so much happier & so will I, lol.

 

The Simpson Stopper, Myrcianthes fragrans, is in full bloom and smells super sweet! This multi-tasking tree is perfect for all Florida gardens. It's a hedge, a screen, shade tree, food & nectar supplier and never asks for much in return.

WOW!! I can't believe my Dragon fruit is blooming
and fruiting like crazy this year, must be all the rain!
This is the inside of the flower, super wild, with lots of
long hair like strands which attract the pollinator's.

Dragon fruit, pitaya, which desperately needs
to be put in the ground.  ok, so put this on this weekends to do list, hurricane pending ;)

Ms. Irene

Hurricane, hurricane go away and don't come back another day!  Nothing personal Ms. Irene :)

Rain, rain and more rain...yea!!!

Boy could we get any more rain!?! (rhetorical question, lol) cause it's Florida and of course we could, lol.  My orchids are absolutely loving this, big bonus since I have been taking them out of their pots and relocation them to the trees in our yard.  Will do a rain dance for those of you around the country in need of rain, esp the farms!!

Stay safe when out in this weather, check back with ya soon! :)