Reddit mentions of Urban Organic Gardening Indoors: A Step-By-Step Beginner’s Guide to Growing A Garden Indoors

Best to start seeds inside and get use to indoor gardening. Indoor gardening eliminates a lot of the pest pressure and uncontrollable weather conditions. It also allows you to analyze and watch your plants progress much easier, do the leaves flop down when its dry? Drought stress... The soil is too wet all the time and the plant declines rapidly (overwatering stress and root related issues). Leaves start to yellow can be nutrient related issue. Mildew on leaves, lack of airflow and UV rays on leaves.

I suggest you start by getting the following for seed germination;

I use this heatmat it works well for me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heat-Sprout-Seedling-Heat-Mat-Germination-Propagation-Sprouting-4-Sizes-/271147604536?pt=US_Hydroponics&var=&hash=item3f21a81a38

LED e27 light (this plugs into a standard 60watt light socket). I suggest you start with a 21w or 27w. Then plug it into a gooseneck 60watt e27 lamp.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-Spectrum-15w-21w-27w-36w-54w-E27-Bulbs-LED-Hydroponic-Plant-Grow-Light-Lamp-/141277776616?pt=US_Hydroponics&var=&hash=item20e4cfcae8

Next you need a suitable soil mix for indoor growing. I recommend you use 100% coco coir in large red cups (make sure to poke holes in the bottom) for the growing medium and pre wet and continue watering with spring water/distill water/osmosis water don't use tap water or high PH water it will screw up a lot of plants. Also make sure not to waterlog the soil, you want it damp but not drenched.

This gives you an idea of how I germinate my seeds;
http://imgur.com/a/1Z5u2

Btw, I left out a lot of details such as fertilizing etc. I am making this more complex then you probably wanted, but if your going to do it... do it right.

Sticking a bunch of seeds in the dirt outside you may be discouraged due to lack of germination, insects, adverse weather conditions, and drought stress. Direct sowing works well with certain types of plants, such as Plantago sp., Taraxacum sp. (Dandelion)., and other adapted and weedy types of plants.

There is plenty of good guides that are out there on the internet for free. Something like this from amazon may be useful: http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Organic-Gardening-Indoors-Step--ebook/dp/B00N1ZLI1Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1421956536&sr=8-3&keywords=gardening+guide