Well, the garden is pretty much done for this year. The first day of frost is almost upon us. The garden produced lots of green beans, a couple of tomatoes and some small basil plants. The cucumbers did not grow well, the peppers also did not produce anything. The corn was a failure, but they were in shade much of the year. All told it was fun to watch and see what was out there!

Here are the last pictures for the year.

We are finnaly harvesting some produce from our little garden! We have picked about 8 cups of green beans and 10 yellow cherry tomatoes. Not too bad since we only have 2 bean plants!

Here are some pictures.

Green beans growing well

Harvested beans and cherry tomatoes

Corn is not growing well.

One of the residents at Grace Lodge, Ruth, received a bouquet of flowers last week with an extra surprise! Attached to the bouquet was a Monarch butterfly cocoon! The cocoon is the greenish blue thing hanging at the bottom of the flower arrangement. The instructions given said that the butterfly would emerge from its home in a few days. Once it dried off it’s wings it was to go to the top of the bouquet and then be transferred outdoors so that it could go free.

Here is Ruth the day she received it

Here is the butterfly just newly emerged

Here is Ruth and the butterfly wings outstreched

Here are some photos of our gardens and newly updated landscaping. Of course there are also some of our residents enjoying the nice weather!

Residents enjoying the view

Flowers and corn growing nicely

Green beans growing up the trellis

View of our walking paths and landsdcaping

Looking through a flower pot and tomato plants to the dock

New Perennials in the flower garden

Resdidents enjoying the warm air

Resident enjoying the warm air

Here in Rhinelander, WI we cannot plant much earlier than June 1st. So here we are planting our vegetable garden!

Raised bed, just planted

Raised bed, just planted

Raised bed, just planted

Front Flower Garden

Front Flower Garden

Front Flower Garden