A Monarch Caterpillar in our Butterfly Garden!

What a surprise!  After two years of growing milkweed as part of our pollinator garden, I found a monarch caterpillar!

Three different types of milkweed in our garden!

Busy exploring the indoor habitat.

It started out quite small, but doubles in size every few days.

After showing all the classes the hungry caterpillar, I noticed it was getting sluggish and put the caterpillar back in our garden to finish it's journey!  Hopefully we will find more caterpillars.  There certainly is evidence they are around!

Our Garden Looks Amazing!

Thank you to all the families that took care of our garden throughout the summer!  It looks fabulous.  So much produce for the school lunches!  This garden couldn't happen without your help.  Thank you!

Our pollinator garden is still growing!

So many cherry tomatoes!

Our strawberry plants are amazing!

An eggplant blossom!

The basil looks great.

Patty pan squash blossom.

A very small carrot from our garden.

More ripe tomatoes, with green one still growing!

Our milkweed garden really grew this year.
Hopefully we will attract some Monarch
butterflies!

Butterfly bush in bloom.

A pepper!

Our cucumber plants are climbing the
trellis, but no cucumbers yet!

PS 58's garden, looking good!