Seed Starting Setup

This is my setup for growing plants from seed. I just keep it in the storage room so it is out of the way and the plants didn't get a significant amount of light from the window I used to put it in front of anyways. I have heat mats under each tray with a temperature controller to keep the soil at an optimum germination temperature. My lights are on a timer so they come on for about 16 hours every day. 

Right now the peppers and tomatoes are the only things in here, because soon I will be transplanting them to larger pots and I'll need all four shelves for everything to fit. Then I split up the lights so there is only one per shelf, although in the future I want to buy more lights so I have six all together.

Starting Tomatoes Inside

This morning I started my tomato seeds inside. I'm growing 5 varieties this year: Federle , Big Mama, Italian Heirloom, German Pink, and Stupice. I'm also planting the eggplant Rosa Bianca seeds in the tomato tray.
I get kind of busy in the spring, so I'm cheating this year and sowing my seeds directly into 2 inch pots. I'll still have to transplant them into larger pots but since I always plant extra I'll only have to transplant about half of these. The rest will remain on backup until I know the garden plants will survive.