Ok, I now have:

2 six packs of Kale
3 six packs of Coleus
3 six packs of Rudbeckia

sitting on a shelf under the 2 ft 4 bulb light.  I replaced 3 out of 4 bulbs (one was still lighting up, for now) and that one seems like the one that will give the best light overall.  The 2 ft 2 bulb one and the 3 ft 2 bulb one are also ready to go.

The Kale have mostly sprouted.  And I will admit, mid January is a little early, but when they get going, I can transplant them to something bigger, feed them a little, and they will be pretty nice sized plants by the time they can go outside.  It's hard to say when that will be, since we are having such a weird winter.

Same with the Coleus.  This is earlier than you're supposed to start them, but they grow so nicely inside.  I mean, they're shade plants, of course they do.

I have no idea what the Rudbeckia are going to do, but I know they said to start really early.  And these make a nice even 8 six packs, which fit nicely on one shelf.

And now I'm thinking about tomatoes.  I'm totally on board with the larger containers.  I want to start them now.  What harm can it do?  So they'll be a little big.  Why not get them going faster.

Someone called Mike McGrath once because he had started his tomatoes too early and he was running out of space for them. That was the only problem.  I can handle that!  Let's do it!  Starting tomatoes NOW!

So we got 30 seeds per pack.  I could do 3 seeds for each container, and I would only use half the packet.  That's probably right.  And I will put that under the 3 ft 2 lamp lights.  It will be awfully close to the lights.  But as soon as they start to grow, we can move the shelves up a notch or two.

Five of each tomato?  Yeah, no worries.  I'm sure I can find people who will take the extras. Especially the determinate tomato, because my work friends will be growing in containers.

When I plant them in the ground, I need to remove a ton of soil from that area.  So I need to buy a few bags of potting soil that I can fill it in with.  And then if I mulch it with a ton of compost, they should be fine, in spite of the third year of growing tomatoes there.