Yes, we must thin the herd.

It looks as though my haphazard approach to maintaining my garden is quickly coming to an end.  Now that I am planting and growing to supplement the household food,  I must step my game up so to speak 🙂

This season, I grew a few plants from seed.  I planted a rainbow variety of cherry tomato, two types of carrot, green beans, lettuce and cilantro.  For some unknown reason, I didn’t pay much attention to the directions to thin the seedlings out once they have sprouted.  The seeds were very small with the exception of the green bean seed.  The seeds are planted (sowed) generally two, three or more at a time.  I suppose it is pretty unrealistic to assume that folks will plant exactly one seed per hole unless they have tons of time on their hands and precision tweezers.

So I plant my herbs and veggies by pinching a few seeds with my fingers and dropping them into the small holes I place in the soil.  As expected, more than one seed sprouted.  This leaves me with 3-4 tiny plants clustered together.  Although the directions on every single seed packet gives instructions to ‘thin” the seedlings out, I ignored them believing that my garden is magical and my particular plants need not be bothered with such things.  LOL No way to get around this task in the garden unless you want to dine on barbie sized veggies.

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