Mine is not nearly as extensive as yours: one rapini broccoli sprout, and one green bean sprout. I have one more of each that haven't sprouted yet, plus one lima bean and two mystery bean plants.

It's been fun! I first tried this last year, since I no longer had a cat and wanted something to care for without too much responsibility And it is SOOOOO rewarding to actually eat something you've grown!!

surface from the little peat pods I put them in. It was about 7 or 8 bucks and it made it easy for a novice like me. It has a cover for the first couple of weeks so my cat can't get into them. We'll see if the plants last longer than my spice garden did once I set them outside, but I think she will leave them alone. She's a good cat.

These are like barely big enough to call sprouts, much less seedlings. It's just as well. Even here in the Deep South our weather is still too iffy. One day, it plummets to the mid 30's (on the Gulf coast in late March, what the heck!?) a day later there is a torrential downpour and you see animals lined up two by two next to a man building a boat.

I grew up in Georgia before Atlanta became Hotlanta. I remember loving every spring.

That should tell you how freaking ODD our weather has been this year. We had snow two or three times, and once, it stuck for a day and a half. Now it's weird fluctuations and then we had flash floods (in the area, but not where I am, though). I rained like the devil. You can't plant anything in weather that makes half the dirt float away because the yard is a swimming pool. I live on an elevated area, though, so it drained off without causing flooding. I feel so badly for the people that live in low lying areas .

My first ex-husband was a yankee. We moved up here as newlyweds. A year later I was suddenly single in NYC.

As I moved around up here I always avoided living in the low lying areas. Never live at the bottom of the hill in the city.

But that doesn't mean that if you live in Yankee territory you live at the top of the hill either

I live in the St. Louis area and we had a heckuva winter. Even tonight it is supposed to get down in the twenties. I didn't want to start them before I could leave them out. I've been nursing a parsley plant, sage and rosemary all thru the winter and that is the only window with a sun exposure.
You will love the Brandywines if you haven't had them before.. I grew some last year and they have a very good flavor. This year I am growing stuff only on the deck. My raised garden has done tomatoes for the last three years and I am going to let it rest for a year. I have had good luck with growing some tomatoes in 5 gallon containers and being single that is enough for me and a few for friends.
I am trying something new this year I found on you tube. It's called a pop bottle garden. I have it all ready to go and will try some herbs, a few kinds of lettuce and my beloved jalapenos. I will have to make a cage for it to keep out the squirrels and bluejays. They love to dig in the soil
Good luck to everybody with their gardens starting. Hopefully it will be a good year for all and lots of those good homegrown veggies.

I have some black seed and some buttercrunch but it is probably too late to put it in actual soil! I'll try that, thanks for the idea!