This year, I plan on supplementing my pantry with quite a bit of garden grown produce, so I’m getting an early start.  Right now, it looks about like this in Louisville:

Here’s my seed growing setup:

The pods are filled with those expandy peat pod things, which actually work pretty well in this case:

And now, a few weeks later, this is what I’ve got going:

I’ve got Lettuce, Kale, and Peppers started.  They apear a bit leggy at the moment, although I hope this is just my terrible gardening judgement.  The light I’ve got above them is a 15W flourescent, and another 20W flourescent in the clip on lamp.  I’m keeping the light on them for around 14 hours a day.  The seed pod gizmo has a microfiber mat that sucks up water and keeps the pods moist, so I don’t have to worry about drowning the little guys.

And so my 2009 year of gardening begins.  I’d like to have a number of lettuces and tomatoes, and hopefully I’ll yeild some peppers this year.  We’ll see how things go.  With luck, the heat of the summer won’t kill everything like it did last year.