Things I learned today! (2nd attempt -see below)

1. Stripping just one blackcurrant bush is hard on the knees and back.

2. Put a sheet under the bush to catch the fallers.

3. Life is too short to spend it cutting tails off hundreds of blackcurrants (for jam) so it looks like I'm making blackcurrant jelly. 1st attempt, wish me luck.

4. Just when you think you've beaten it, the dreaded gooseberry sawfly makes a second wave attack, this time on the previously untouched redcurrant bush.

5. Be realistic when ordering. After the blackcurrants I finished pulling all the garlic. It was on offer from one of the merchants - what can I do with about a hundred garlic bulbs?

6. For their size caterpillars can eat a pnenominal amount of cabbage. Where do they put it all?

7. Don't press the tab key followed by the back page key just when you've finished typing your topic. (everything disappeared)

3. Life is too short to spend it cutting tails off hundreds of blackcurrants (for jam) so it looks like I'm making blackcurrant jelly. 1st attempt, wish me luck.

Couldn't agree more!! Blackcurrant jelly every time for me, far far easier, but more time consuming waiting for the juice to drip out, need  to allow at least 48 hours start to finish for the jelly IMHO

I did the last one before it messed up my computer
I gues ill never learn
Im just a nosey parker

5. Be realistic when ordering. After the blackcurrants I finished pulling all the garlic. It was on offer from one of the merchants - what can I do with about a hundred garlic bulbs?

I would love to have grown 100 garlic bulbs .  So jealous .  Try mincing and storing in jars like the lazy garlic supermarkets sell.  100 garlic bulbs might just see us through to next year's harvest, then again.........perhaps not quite.