Smallest Farm's Final Failure
As the first frost seems likely tonight, the chapter closes on the 2005 harvest on Iowa's Smallest Farm. Gathered a bumper crop of 21 beans - that's beans, not bushels or freezer packs but individual bean. Plus five that had dried for seed. The worst year yet since I began gardening in 1994, with the exception of 2003 when I failed to plant any garden at all.
Why such a disaster? Bad location, bad location, slightly late start, and bad location.
Not all was lost; a decent crop of catnip remains and should reseed itself for the future. The furry roommates are enjoying a buzz now, and one has the munchies and wants one of those hard earned beans.
In other personal trivia, the ancient 8 track receiver is Officially Pronounced Dead and has been replaced bt a vintage Yamaha found at Goodwill. Hat Tip to Audio Service Specialists of Coralville.
And I'm rapidly e-volving and de-volving in the TTLB Ecosystem; despite what seems to be slow steady increases in traffic and link love, I dropped from Slithering Reptile down two phyla to Flippery Fish, then back up to Reptile. In any case, the feedback seems to be coming through from the hit counter and the comments: more local stuff.
Also: Iowa Democratic Party and Kansas City: Thanks for all the traffic. Say hi sometime.
The worst.
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