Gee, I thought seed starting was why houses have guest bedrooms! Ours has a four tier tray in front of a south facing window, filled with pepper, tomato, basil, parsley, and eggplant seedlings. More than we'll ever need to grow, but like you, the siren song of the seed catalogs lured me in!
We're in Texas, so I can't even blame spring fever. Our spring has started, although it's a mite damp and cool right now. Direct seeding starts as soon as the soil dries out a bit.

Ha! Thanks for your post! I sent it to my husband, telling him "see, it could be worse..." Also, I really appreciate the fact that your dresser is covered with vegetables, rather than such boring things as make-up and jewelry! :) My seedlings are neatly contained (so far) this year by the new lighting set-up, but the flowers that are overwintering are another story. And let us not forget the fig trees overwintering in the basement!

I certainly do understand your "strict limits" problem. I always have the same- it's so hard to nip off a little seedling that's growing just as vigorously as the others just because it's number 11 instead of number 10... and it's real small, there'll probably be room, right?

Cheers!

Sunni

We are in the same boat! I am out of control with my seeds and plants, and I realize this, yet feel helpless to stop it ...

At least I stopped trading tomato seeds. There are still 4 varieties I did not plant because I have no room! I told myself I'll try them in june for my fall garden. which is fine, as I have 19 different kinds of tomatoes growing right now (2-3 of each type) and I am the only one in the house who eats tomatoes :)

We should start a support group...

Direct seed the lettuce, bok choi, tatsoi, and swiss chard. Starting them inside is unneccessary work.

It's nice to remember I'm not alone sometimes =) Ha! Most of my neighbors don't grow so much as a tomato plant in their yards. If they didn't know me (and my garden) well enough, they might think I was growing something DIFFERENT under the shoplight in our room... starting veggies from seed is so entirely foreign to them!

I WISH I had a guest bedroom to start all my seeds, but we have a tiny 2-bedroom bungalow... (The second bedroom used to be the front porch!) That bedroom would be ideal with three big south-facing windows, except that it's also occupied by a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old =) So as of now, my only option is our bedroom. Thus why I am hoping to set something up in the basement for "growing on" once things have sprouted in the warmer upstairs.

I am planning to direct-seed lettuce, bok choi, and tatsoi as well, but it's way too early to start them outside. We still have a foot of snow on the ground... and I want plants as early as possible. My garden is a very necessary part of our budget (which does help my hubby's patience with it, I think!) I buy very little produce at the store, instead depending on whatever we can get from the garden, so early greens are very welcome. (Should have planted more mache, arugula, mizuna, spinach, kale last fall... still getting the hang of fall gardening!)

Not to mention my horrible skills at getting small seeds to actually sprout when I sow them direct...

Armymomma, can you imagine a meeting of the "seed starting support group?" We'd degenerate into a seed swap and then a plant swap. There is no cure, there is no hope, we just garden along!

Remind your poor husband when he is chowing down on the vegetables you have grown how lucky he is!

Here is a link that might be useful: How To Plant A Vegetable Garden

If only there were not so many seeds in the package and the 72 cell flats are so compact when you start them....

LOL@ marlingardener

I swear I cannot pass by a seed display anywhere without checking it out and most of the time picking up yet another variety I don't yet have...

I'm running out of containers though to start seeds in. I am going to have to get the kids to eat yogurt faster or go out and buy some more cups...

Eat your yogurt now! This seedling is going to DIE! haha.

I'm actually thinking of "accidentally" widening my garden this year to fit some more things in.

Kim