Wow june, your basil looks great - especially the cinnamon. I'm also curious about the flat you started them in. I'm reading The Sustainable Vegetable Garden by John Jeavons and Carol Cox right now, and he describes starting seeds in flats like that. They seem easy to build, but I'm curious. What is the bottom made of? How does it drain?

Yes they are relatively easy to build. I built mine out of cedar but he may suggest using sustainable redwood.

If you want to go the super easy route you can buy the kit:
http://tinyurl.com/5w3nho

In that picture you can see what the bottom looks like. The same wood with spaces in between the slats. So it can drain through the slats. When putting these on my shelves, I put a towel underneath of them so that they don't drip onto the light or floor below.

I love these flats and really need to put aside some time to make more.