After all that hoping and waiting, I just didn't have the physical (or mental, let's be honest) capacity to process our plums. I gave a sackful to a neighbor and made a batch of unsweetened puree for crumbles (I was able to squeeze most of it into the freezer): I estimate about 8-10# in total. I didn't weigh it. The daughter managed to eat a couple dozen too. But the rest has gone to the birds/wasps/worms: maybe about 20-30#.
I had 2.8 L of kilner jar space to make some cucumber refrigerator pickle slices last week, but I'm really down to the wire for jars now. A couple small ones, like 250 mL each, and one more 1 L kilner jar. I mainly use the kilner jars for fermented veg, or fridge pickles. And did I mention how full my fridge is of pickles and fermented veg? There isn't a big tradition of canning/bottling in this country so jars and lids aren't easily obtainable. I have to make do with what I have.
I managed to clear my kohlrabi bed at the allotment, pulling all the usable kohlrabi and digging lots of grass runners--I have a monster compost pile at the front of my allotment now, next to my five full compost bins. I've left the bed unmulched for now, as I plan on making one more pass with the garden fork first; maybe I'll win against the grass one of these years. After trimming off all the leaves and roots I stacked the kohlrabi in a box (on my kitchen floor! I have no space!); I'm trying to use one every day or so: I like to shred them (peeled first) and marinate for salad.
Still picking toms, cucs, zucs, French beans, onions. Soon: lots of squashes, komatsuna (regrowth after flea beetle damage), beets, early leeks. Maybe in the future (not very close): carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, pak choi, Chinese cabbage, pak choi, winter radish, cauliflower. Looking good for a spring harvest: hardy leeks, purple sprouting broccoli.
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