Seed sprouting

We're trying something new this year by sprouting our own heirloom seeds for the garden. This fall we ordered some heirloom seeds online in hopes of saving seeds from the garden. Hopefully this will let us be a bit more self-sufficient instead of going to the garden center and buying plants every year. Also, there just seems to be something wrong with hybrid seeds or plants that grow a vegetable that can't every grow again without another hybrid seed provided by the seed company.

We set up some shelves in a heated room in our barn with some full-spectrum florescent lights. We also cranked up the heater in that room to make sure it was warm enough for the seeds to sprout. So far, so good. Our cat Lily doesn't seem to mind that it's even warmer in that room now than it was before either! Some are growing so well that we'll have to transplant sooner than we thought.