u/Known_Wear7301

Hi there, took over an overgrown plot in May.

We've had a fairly successful season bearing in mind We've been playing catch-up.

However, what am I doing with this?

This is a patch of golden raspberries, raspberries and blackberries.

In the middle there is a metal posted frame with some netting over.

We've harvested 8 jars of jam so far with berries in the freezer and raspberries about to riped.

I would like to reclaim some of the space back for actual growing. It accounts for maybe a sixth of the plot.

How do I prepare them for next season please.

Do I literally just cut them right back? If so how low?

Would I maybe lift them all out. Dig and condition the area and then replant them in formation?

What would you clever much more knowledgeable people do please.

Thanks in advance.

Came back from a week away to a birthday harvest.

Dinner was served with pickled cucumbers, I made a blackberry sauce to go with my birthday steak.

Knocked some pickled beetroot up. Never had this variety before omg it was beautiful.

Put a slice of steak tomato in the burgers.

Going on holiday for a week tomorrow.

All our seedlings have gone on a holiday to my mums (I'm not hopeful 😂)

Been to the allotment today.

Harvested another's batch of blackberries and cucumbers.

Made some jam and cucumber pickles.

Will need to go back to the allotment tomorrow morning.

Its 11pm and I haven't sorted out our actual packing yet or packed the car.

😂😂

Will start by saying we unexpectedly got a plot in May.

We don't expect anything this year.

However........ turn up yesterday and a flipping badger has wrecked my sweetcorn that was just getting ready to do something and snapped a tomato plant and walked through my salad patch just coming up.

The good though. Took two (not so) mini cucumbers, my daughter wanted to look at a carrot and we got a load of blackberries.

Three jars of blackberry jam made this morning and then dinner used the cucumbers (and home made quince jelly)

The Red Bull was strange, I didn't realise the Coke wasn't normal coke.

The Sushi Tacos were OK I guess, bit messy to look at and messy to get out of the package, I guess it tasted OK though. The Falafel is definitely nicer at M&S.

Apart from that it was ok 😂😂

So I went down a rabbit hole over winter and researched what you were supposed to do to sort the lawn out.

See the montage, aerated the grass manually, spread with sand, as you can see the sand dried out a bit and brushed in further, the full grass seed and compost layer down.

Looked banging but then a month or two later it looks like this, still really patchy, still really bumpy and holey.

What do you think. Would potentially rolling the lawn after/whilst seeding it?

Feels like, at this stage I threw a couple of hundred pounds down the drain.