Vinny's Allotment Plot

Enough of this frivolity, been back at the allotment again!

Mainly went to water stuff in greenhouse but I always find summat else to do (as you do!)

Lifted my elephant garlic and seperated out the three biggest ones to split up and re-plant in the autumn. I placed  them all upside down through the wire top of a dog crate I purposely keep at the allotment to dry stuff off on.
As I am not a fan of bare soil I broke up the soil where the elephant garlic had been and created a seed bed. Into this I planted some what I think are PSB? but they could be calabrese? as the labels blew away from the seedbed I have grown them in.

I then harvested what will soon be the last of the strawberries which just keep on giving. Once they are finished I will take the hedge shears to them and give all the plants a truim to rejuvinate them.

I have a blackcurrant bush in the corner of the plot which has grown to about  8 foot high because of lack of pruning? Te problem is it is surrounded by nettles. I gingerly flattened the nettles down (nettles and bare legs don't mix)  and fought my way to the bush. As it needed pruning anyway I just chopped off a branch, stripped off the blackcurrants and went on to the next branch. One bucket of blackcurrants and one pruned bush made me happy with result. I also gathered blackcurrants off another more accessible bush as well.

After tasting some gooseberries on another bush and finding them quite sweet I though I may as well pick those as well before the local kids pinched them!

I don't know whether to make mixed fruit jam or cook each soft fruit individually? Decisions, decisions.