Depending on what it is, eat the thinnings. Baby Swiss chard’s are great stir fried or just in a salad.
Oh good idea! I will have baby beet greens I can harvest. The corn, beans, cucumbers will have to be composted ;(
I wanted to ask you about watering with the newspaper/mulch scenario - I’ll be using just grass clippings this year since I didn’t collect leaves. Will water from rain and overhead sprinklers be able to penetrate the grass and paper well enough?