Carrot Thinning is Brutal....But Necessary

Okay, I admit it.  I hate to thin carrots, turnips, beets, lettuce...you name it.  Every time I have to pull up a plant it just hurts.  Other years I have done what I needed to do.  This year something happened inside of me and I could not bring myself to thin them.  I talked myself into believing that they would have enough room.  I knew better.  So what happened?  A bumper crop of "baby carrots".  Not bad, but not really what I was after.