You can have seedlings in less than a week by placing the seeds in a wet napkin and the napkin into a sandwich bag. Place the bag in a drawer and come back in a week. You’ll have a mess of sprouts. Problems arise when you try to pry the sprouts from each other and from the wet napkin. It’s a sure but sloppy way to grow plants. The sprouts will also be long and skinny, weak, and ready to die.

Next we can plant seeds in trays inside the home. If we put the seeds outside they’ll be immediately gobbled up by ugly slugs. But inside they’ll be starved for light and stretch awfully thin trying to reach for the sun light.

I cleared the wood growing structure from the house. It consists of a few 2x4s put together to make four levels of shelves for placing trays of seeds. Maximum light enters the structure. It’s an eyesore in the house and so I moved it to the garage where light is less but enough to start the life cycle. It worked.

More lettuce and raddish are visible after a week in the garage.