BTW, I start them folded into moist coffee filters enclosed in zip-lok bags. To start 10 or so at a time, it can be a very little bag. I use coffee filters because they seem a bit less porous than paper towels and the little roots are less likely to get entangled in them.
I put them up on top of my fridge for a couple of weeks. Then I look at them and carefully transfer (using tweezers) those that have germinated into soil in small containers - cut-off styrofoam cups work well as would individual yogurt cups with holes punched in the bottom. I've had better success with germination that way than in soil because they stay evenly moist in the zip-lok bags. At that point they go under lights. You can put 4-5 little seedlings in one cup of soil and pot them up later in spring. I get them outside as soon as it's warm enough, but not into light that's too bright at first.
