I'm really good at sowing a lot of seed and then it comes up all green and beautiful and I get really excited about growing food and then I get radishes and carrots that are the size of toothpicks.
It took a concentrated effort to actually Pull Some Up so that the others would have room to flourish.
It's totally a life lesson for me.
Aside from dying inside every time I have to pull up a perfectly OK start of lettuce or arugula or radishes or beets or carrots or .... everything, I get stuck at trying to decide exactly which ones must go.
I finally developed a system where first I figure out how much room I want between plants in the end, then I identify the best plants so I can keep them and then I pull up the extras. Tiny greens [micro greens] can go into salads if you don't want to waste the starts, or they can go into the chickens or on the compost heap. No waste.
I've been doing better lately and have grown the best radishes in the history of radishes. Also, I have a row of gorgeous parsips now. Also carrots. Also lettuce. My garden is producing better produce.
Which is why I'm sucking it up and applying the thinning lesson to other areas of my life. It's still a struggle. I hate to pull things up. I have trouble deciding which things should go. When the feeling hits me I take advantage and thin what's in front of me and try not to worry about the rest. I think very slowly, so I figure it's OK to thin slowly, too.
Along the way, there are people who fuss at my choices and I'm learning how to ignore them. It's flattering to be asked to do things, but it's not always good for me or the family. Adjustments must be made. I'm doing my best to adjust and so must everyone else.
In the end, the adjustments will pay off and we'll have more room to flourish.
