Foraging for Sunshine, More Melvegas Pics

First of all, I'm sorry for disparaging gardenerds. The truth is that I am probably just trying to compensate for my own geekdom, or at least obfurscate it. I have tonnes of respect for the true gardenerds who know so much more about gardening than myself. I in fact don't qualify as one myself, my geekiness is manifest purely in enthusiasm.
But I also feel nothing is quite so badass as blind enthusiasm. . . in the spirit of which I share some more photos from mid-may in Melvegas:

our trellae: the stand-alone is for peas, sweet peas, and beans - the second layer, hanging from the house, is for zuccini, 3 types of cucumber and morning glory

The peas gettin goin - eggplant to the left

Korn!!

Onions, herbs & Gus, who loves to lie onto of seedlings

I agree with Laura, Gwar would make an awesome candidate for agricultural balladeers, but I also want to put in a good word for Korn, as well as The Black Eyed Peas.

Laura also put me in mind of some foraging I also got up to a couple of weekends ago: dandelions, baby! There are so many good uses for dandelions - I had no idea. You can boil the roots, you can roast the roots and make coffee of them, you can steam the little proto-buds, you can eat the leaves . . . but my favourite is the dandelion wine, aka liquid sunshine. I made a batch a couple of years ago, and by the time it was finished fermenting it was so potent 2 litres lasted for months, warming up the cold winter. Anyways, this year I thought I'd try it again so we got a small team together and gathered dandelion buds on Victoria Day weekend. Consequently I now have a big yellow gurgling batch of the stuff fermenting in my back porch. (or at least in my imagination it's gurgling)

Dandelion heads ready to be viciously stewed

If anyone in Cambridge wants Broccoli seedlings, I've got a bunch, also a few tomatoes.