Bottled Dandelion Wine and Some Garden Pics

So, a few weeks late, typical of me I suppose, I finally got around to bottling the dandelion wine that we started back in mid-may. For the last month or so it had been sitting in a lovely old earthenware jug into the top of which I had stuffed some bunched up cotton. This allowed for the appropriate gas-exchange to occur for the fermentation but also prevented bugs and stuff from getting in. It didnt prevent a raccoon from almost getting in however! When one got into our back room in June (I think hes friends with Gus) amongst other antics (including pooping in my seed trays) he pushed this makeshift stopper into the jug. Fortunately he didnt actually get into it though, or knock the jug over! Now basically we wait until winter to drink this stuff. I tasted some while bottling (pretty much inevitable with my syphoning skills) and it pretty much tasted like acetyl acohol mixed with water and ginger. . . hmmm. . . I dont know what this means, but I didnt keel over or go blind so it must not have toooooo high methyl content.

And here are some garden pics I took back at the end of May and just found on my camera.