My current favourites are broad beans, spinach = popeye, artichokes look great, taste splendid but take up room, beans, peas, strawberries, vietnamese mint - I like 'em all, even celery

Good vegetables need good recipes. Lately I've been getting into Marcella Hazan's recipes. Beautiful, simple, yet detailed :

Celery and tomato pasta sauce | Sugo di sedano e pomodoro (Marcella Hazan) http://bit.ly/do6S29

Delicimo!

Also - if you get someone to build you a box that will take out most of the hard work, and increase the bounty. We'd build you one, but all of our gear is over here. I think these people look good:

http://www.patchfromscratch.co.nz/

Maybe I lost all my principles somewhere between being a lawyer and a journalist...

That's like saying :

"Maybe I lost all my elegance between being a pimply wart-hog and an STD that is visible to the eye"