The Merry Mishaps of a Gardening Newbie

        Growing up on one of the busiest streets in a city I have always longed for the exact opposite. Instead of waking up to ambulance sirens and gas fumes, I wanted roosters and rolling green pastures. I would fantasize  about milking cows, riding horses and picking apples. My childhood dreams extending into my university days, reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles  I found myself envying her life as a milk maid.  I swore when I finished school I would buy a huge farm and have fresh eggs every morning, eat my lunch straight out of the garden and sit on my porch in the cool evenings watching the fire flies after a hard days work with my handsome (often shirtless) field hand Antonio.(what? it gets hot!) But I digress. I am now finished my school, married( not to Antonio) with a son and guess where I live...on a busy street in a city.
       So here I am with a small backyard and my eternal, nagging, desire for farm life. Although I had dabbled in gardening before, five days ago I came across a magazine that caught my attention. Urban Gardening it said, with the big ripe tomatoes taunting me on the cover. I quickly bought it. After reading it cover to cover I was inspired but also intimidated by all the sowing instructions, hardening off, making your own organic fertilizer (seriously?), bug fighting and what not. Can't you just put the seed in a pot and give it water and then put it in the garden? I decided to find out. I also decided to blog about it so that next year I can hopefully do it better as I am sure I will make many mistakes.    
         So here is what I have done so far. I have purchased seeds that will grow in my area. What growing area am I in? I have no clue. I live in Nova Scotia.  I know there are such things as growing areas. I just don't know what mine is. Basically I figured if the seed store is selling the seeds, chances are they will grow here. Smart huh? So here is what seeds I have bought : White Russian Kale (no idea what this is) Kale, crazy red and white ringed beets (I thought they were pretty), rainbow swiss chard ( again very pretty) , basil, cilantro (yum) buttercrunch lettuce (again never heard of it) the proud romaine lettuce (I love Caesar salad) arugula, watercress and beans. I think I might of got a little too excited buying seeds as my garden is tiny and I am not sure how big these grow. I also bought an indoor seed starting container that has a plastic dome.  I planted the seeds 3 days ago. When I say I planted the seeds, I mean I put all of the seeds in the packet into one or two compartments. I thought some might not come up. Like when they plant extra embryos inside a women in case some don't take. I should have learned from Octomom. This was major mistake number 1. They have already sprouted 100's of plants. It is a little out of control and I am not sure what to do know as it is still too cold to put them outdoors. But I am just going to think on it until it is a lot out of control, which I am guessing might be in about 5 days time.  Thanks for reading! Please feel free to give me advice!! And I will see you in about five days time!
                                      
                                                        Here is my seed starting kit. Kind of lame.

                                                 Here are the 100's of seedlings after 3 days!

                                                     Here is my tiny garden plot. Needs weeding.