Not much progress last week!

I didn't get down the plot much last week as we were away for the weekend and then I was sorting three bulk bags of soil improver for the garden for the rest of the week.
I arrived down on Saturday to check on things and managed to spread some compost on one bed and planted the onion and shallot sets. The weeds are certainly growing apace!
On Sunday I arrived to find my son had started on the 'volunteer' blackberry shoots growing through the fence to next door. It is the remaining roots of the rampant thornless blackberry I dug out to transplant to the other side of the plot where I thought I could control it! When I lost control of it again I dug it out and bought a smaller hybrid. He removed masses of stems and roots, including the ancient thorny blackberry left by a dim distant previous neighbour. However, he was defeated by the clump of nettles with roots entwined in the fence netting. I need to talk to my neighbour about how best we deal with it.
Meanwhile I spread more compost/leafmould which I had left heaped on each bed several months ago - far too long - so each heap is covered in a blanket of weeds. I started weeding one heap of compost and found myself having to dig out bindweed from along the fence. There was so much growing along the fence line I finished up bagging it up to take to the tip. Normally I compost it but there's so much I dare not risk it!
We stopped for a brew using my Ghillie kettle and decided that there was only time to fix the front of the central compost bin using some special screws I had bought from Wickes as the the compost had forced the old screws out and threatened to burst out onto the track. That done we looked to what could be harvested.
The rhubarb, both forced and normal, is growing well so we harvested some off the forced plant. We also dug out the last two rows of the parsnips, not thinned so just a few small ones, and shared them. Finally we dug out some of the leaf beet and each took a bagful of leaves, together with a few from the last row of leeks. Given the time of year - a good haul!