gardening updates

Our gardening flowers/veg experiment is going good. We had a good amount of strawberries, which M. is able to pick, wash and eat by herself; she has been very keen on observing and caring for the plants, and she is very happy to be able to collect the fruits of her work. The tomotoes and cocumbers are growing fast, no flowers yet but I am hoping. Flower bubls have turned into leaves, so now it is just a matter of waiting, we'll probably have some flowers in July.







The caterpillars have grown a lot and they were very hungry caterpillars. The last two weeks I had to change their leaves very 2-3 days and the poor bush where I was getting their leaves couldn't cope with it; I had to try to offer them another kind of leaf, which luckely they liked. Now one of them has turned into a crysalid, other two are working on it. I only have two left which are still eating away.
The transformation happened quite quickly. It started making a kind of spider net, then the next morning he has already inside its coocon which lays on this net. The coocon was yellow, then it turned to orange, when I looked at it in the late afternoon it was black!