http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZCGHJ 14 July 2010 Bush Berries.
About 15 liters of bush berries were picked tonight from three bushes. The types are European gooseberries, American Gooseberries, and Black Currants. The European gooseberry is larger that the American type as indicated by the penny in the photographs. All the berries are excellent quality, and most prolific,and sweet enough to eat with no difficulty. The bushes should not have so many branches, but I was away when pruning should have been done. About 15 branches per plant is sufficient. This will be corrected during the dormant period this year. I will eat raw, cooked, a few pies, and blended for juice. Do not wash bush berries until just prior to utilizing, since they last longer without deteriorating.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?DFWFT 14 July 2010 Monarch Butterfly

Compare this butterfly to the Red Admiral.
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?OUJDC 14 July 2010 Red Admiral Butterfly. The heading is mis-named.

After mis-identifying the Monarch, while walking to my shed I found a dead Monarch. This was most astonishing, maybe because I had Monarchs on my brain. A comments poster corrected me.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?PATUX 14 July 2010 Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

This perennial Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) was planted in the garden five years ago, from a pot purchased from a nursery. It enlarges each year and the blooms last most of the Summer. It is one of my favorite flowers. The flowers look like rockets in flight.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?OUJDC 14 July 2010 Monarch Butterfly

A correction this pretty butterfly is not a Monarch. It is a Red Admiral.

This is the first Butterfly seen this year. It was mis-identified a Monarch.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ZEKBZ 14 July 2010 Crinoline Nylon Mesh

This crinoline nylon mesh appears ideal for protecting plants from insects and bird attacks. It is not starched. This crinoline nylon mesh is 72 inches wide and comes in rolls of any reasonable length found in fabric stores. It is relatively easy to work with. The price was two dollars a meter, and width is two meters. It could have been useful earlier in the season to protect cabbage from the white cabbage butterfly, and my cherries. It appears I will have to cover my blackberry bushes, since the robins appear to eat them as they ripen. The pictures indicate covering strawberries and a fruiting mulberry bush.