Mission aborted!

The farm has been overrun by gnats! My houseplants had a few, but they really love the cubicle farm. They're harmless but annoying. And they've spread to my neighbors' cubes. My co-workers don't appreciate that. Gnats have even been sighted across the hall in my boss's office. That pretty much puts the kibosh on the cubicle farm.

So this weekend I went in and shut it down. I brought the EarthBox (and some infested houseplants) home. I got one last lettuce harvest (delicious) and then left the box outside for a couple hours in the sub-freezing night. Hopefully that'll kill the little bastards. It definitely killed the lettuce.

In other bad news, I did some reading last week, and it looks like even my garlic is not destined for success. People who know what they're doing grow it in much bigger containers. Apparently the roots like to go deep. My pots are only about 6" tall.

Despite the steady flow of bad news, I'm not done with this. Once the office is gnat-free I'll try again. In the meantime, I did some pretty major New Year's cleaning around the apartment to make room for more planters.

You win this time, gnats! But you haven't heard the last of me!