Warning: seed starting can be addictive

I'm out of control and and must be stopped. Ok it's not going to happen.  I haven't "finished" my greenhouse, but this winter I got it functional. I was so happy. I said to my daughter "look at all this space,  so much room, I will never fill it".  My daughter laughed and asked me if I remember the dining room last year.
This year I have been trying to be smarter, and not grow more than a few of each variety. I have also started later. These strategies were supposed to help. But... Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it I have decided to add more flowers in my life, and I have friends and family who want some hard to get veggies like habanada peppers, and white egg plant, so I have to grow extra. Then I keep watching YouTube, and reading articles, so I keep finding new veggies and herbs and flowers I just have to try.  I tried banning myself from buying any more seeds, but I ordered two more last night.  It's a sickness, really.  ( I Just had asparagus from the garden. I have never tasted better, I can't believe how amazing it is. I saved seeds from it. I need to start those seeds 😁🤪)
I haven't filled the greenhouse yet, but it's definitely getting used.  The really scary thing is at least a third, maybe even half of what I grow gets directly sown.
It wouldn't be so bad if I gave most of it away. I will definitely share, but most will go in the garden, which means an insane amount of time caring for it all. It's a good thing I love it.  My garden gets bigger every season.
Starting seeds is so much fun, and rewarding. You can find varieties you will never see in the nurseries, and it's cheaper than buying the plants, but beware it can be addictive.

Last week I had guests and bought a melon to make a fruit salad for them, and the seeds were so pretty that I just had to start them... they were fresh so sprouted the next day, and now I have melon seedlings... I'm helpless, even if I don't buy more seeds they just come to me and look pretty :))

Totally fun, and totally addictive, and I *really* don't need more plants I've got no good place to plant (deer and bunnies like all the pretty things I like - my poor tulip leaves in the front garden got munched before I even realized they were up!)

However, the hall bathroom has the temp cranked up and a heat mat in the bathtub in the forlorn hope that the pepper seeds will germinate. The "wait" can be both stressful and exciting!

Like Flora's example, a friend of my husband came to visit and brought some fresh lychee fruit. Yes, I've got a rather sad looking, but still alive lychee plant in my front window! I even took it to a friend's house so she would baby-sit it while I had to be away for several weeks. But they had such a lovely seed inside. They *might* even be hardy enough to grow in my area. Why not?

If there is empty space in my house, it gets a tray of seedlings. It is a problem but I love it.

I have a 10/20 trays of Dahlia. I started a pack in the first round. Even though I keep records, I thought they didn't germinate, so started another package. I still have 3 pots full of Dahlia and one of petunia.  Thank goodness I recovered these little 3 oz. Plastic cups. They came in a package of 100 I can't remember what I paid, but it was 3 something.  They are quite sturdy. I can wash them and use them again and again.  Of course I can't leave the seedling in them for long being so small, but they don't require a lot of soil, and I think buy me enough time to put them outside.  Everything I have planted in them seem to be doing well.
I'm going to start hopefully my last tray of seeds this weekend.  A few more different kinds of flowers, a lettuce a customer told me about that can handle our summer heat and not get bitter, or bolt I will believe that when I see it, but it's worth a try. A tomato I ordered and missed planting, and a pepper I ordered yesterday.  
Would it surprise you to know I would love to start seeds and sell seedlings for a living.?  I talked to a man today that makes a minimum of a thousand a weekend selling seedlings at the farmers market in Sacramento February through May/ part of June.  It's not enough to make a living on, but tempting to try .
Happy growing