Below are pics of the beginnings of my veggie/herb garden--much to your delight, I will take pics every few days/weeks to show you the progress. We live in a much smaller home now, but we have a much bigger deck (please no cheap jokes)--so container gardeners we are going to be:
as always--sing or hum, and don't look at the hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_exY9ptMbA
ps: you can use egg cartons for this--but we just can't choke down enough eggs--so I bought this at Walmart for $4---64 little starters, including organic soil--and once they start you just cut them apart and put them right in the ground--or containers in our case. Here is another good place to start:
http://www.valueseeds.com/index.html?er=google;term=cheap+seeds&gclid=CM-m5JGrvJkCFRabnAodlk5uuw
ps: I also have a lamp on the young seedlings, and for the record it is warmer in Moline than Raleigh today--:)