thrawn21

Oh man, I'm the worst at that. So many wonderful things too precious to eat or drink that I held onto until they could no longer be enjoyed.

I wish they tasted as different as they look, but they're pretty much like standard carrots, just generally less sweet and more carrot-y. I've also grown other varieties that were intensely sweet, but not as fantastical looking.

They vary in sweetness, but generally taste more intense than the ones you'd get at the store. A lot of the common varieties used for baby carrots are bred with a focus on sweetness, and these are more carrot-y in a way. It would be fun if the tasted as different as they look, but nope, all carrot.

You're not to the point yet where you're looking to prune your plants, though that's definitely something you'll want to be doing later, to control their size in a small space. Just pick one or two seedlings in each pot that look the healthiest, and snip the stems of the rest right at the soil.

Nope, they still look young enough to me to separate, and tomatoes can be surprisingly hardy. Even if say you managed to break every single root off, you could place the stem in a jar of water and it'll sprout new roots in a week or so. One way to easily clone a plant, or skip growing a new plant from seed is to clip and root a sucker.

Just carefully get them out of the pot (my favorite gentle method is putting fingers against the soil around the base of the cluster and then flipping the whole pot, but this tends to be messy), and then just gently massage the root ball to remove the dirt or swish in a bucket of water.

Though before you do that, I'd think about where you're going to plant the other seedlings. I see as many as 7 individual shoots in some of your pots, and a typical rule of thumb is each tomato wants a 5 gallon bucket of soil to itself. You can get away with with smaller containers (some determinate varieties will do fine, like this Orange Hat micro tomato), but it makes them much more sensitive to changes in moisture and nutrients. Personally, I wouldn't leave more than two max in the pots you've got.

If you don't have the space to spread out your seedlings, you might want to skip uprooting them and just snip the excess seedlings at the base. Or pull them up, and give the spares to friends!

Yep, it's pretty darn dry where I'm at. The drip irrigation I use doesn't fall under our current water restrictions, but I still try to not use excessive amounts. I also mulch everywhere and add increasing layers as the weather heats up.

This is my soil from when I was weeding yesterday, plenty moist and look at all those worms!

Yep! Some previous owner of my house put in an absolutely massive pool that takes up 95% of the backyard, so I smothered my front lawn with mulch and built my garden there!

The bermuda grass is tenacious though, really have to stay on top of yanking it where it tries to reestablish. You'll see patches of it if you look in the background of the lower photo, but it's a war of attrition I think I'm slowly winning.

It looks like you've got multiple tomatoes in each pot, I'd thin them to one per pot, lest they get crowded. You could also fill the pots further and bury the stems of the tomatoes, they'll sprout roots from the stem and be even hardier!