Gardening: Seed Starting AKA Hubby's Most Hated Time of the Year

The weather in Utah is seriously on crack but that is a normal thing. In the Spring it can be tank top and flip flop weather in the morning and snow on the ground at night. And it does that for like 2 months. So while I'd been waiting to till the ground to get going I finally just forced myself to start seeds. When the musicmaker came down to see all my seed stuff he said "NOOO" in a long drawn out defeated voice. He hates having all my little pots of "dirty" plants around. But oh well, that's part of it all right?

A question for all you master gardeners before I forget... do you guys think putting my plants on stools so they're under my kitchen hanging lights would work as grow lamps? Or a desk lamp? I just don't know if I can set up and buy/build real grow lamps.

Anyways so here's my master list of what I planted.

• corn silver queen hybrid
• pumpkin casper
• pumpkin jack o lantern
• peas wando
• watermelon triple baby seedless hybrid
• tomato yellow pear
• tomato brandywine red
• tomato viva italia roma hybrid
• pepper sunbright
• carrot little finger
• edamame
• bean top notch golden
• peas sugar snap
• squash black beauty
• squash acorn
• pepper anaheim long red
• pepper jalapeno
• pumpkin jack be little
• pepper early jalapeno
• pepper california wonder
• peas oregon giant (snow peas)
• squash early white bush scallop
• bean contender
• random corn from last year
• lots of marigolds
• lots of poppies

 I welcome all tips, this is my first year putting stuff in the ground and I have no clue. Last year it was all in pots and I treated everything more like pretty plants, I'd love to really have a thriving garden this time.