Got maybe 1/4 inch of rain overnight, but the top of the bed was crusty by late afternoon so I gave it a soak. The lettuce loves water, and I don't mind pampering the tomatoes. There are new little fruits on each plant each day, with plenty more on the way.
After mowing the front lawn and taking some well-deserved hammock time I decided to talk to my tomato plants and let them know how much I appreciate their efforts. While squatting over my carrots and wasting my time yapping to the tomatoes I noticed that the carrots still needed some serious thinning. I thinned them to clumps about 2 inches apart a couple of weeks ago, but today I saw that each clump comprised 2, 3, or more individual plants. Hated to do it, but I carefully eased out the extras and now have but one plant per clump. Brought the thinnings inside, rinsed them, and popped 'm in the fridge for use in my salads. The roots are still quite small and white-to-pale-yellow, but I tasted one and it did in fact taste carroty.
Before I mowed I raised the mower a notch to leave the grass a bit higher. The result was not good. The mower missed a lot of spots. Which made no sense to me until I realized that my mower adjustment raises only the back end of the mower body. I'm guessing this places the blades at an angle and makes them less efficient at buzzing all the grass. I may explore the geometry a bit more and make sure I can't raise the front as well. But for now I lowered the blade back to where it was doing a good job.
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