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It’s heartening to hear I’m not the only one, and glad to hear you are getting one over on the slugs! They have all but destroyed a young hydrangea we heeled-in in the back garden.
I see from other threads there have been germination issues. Some of my seeds took a month to surface, even with 3 weeks on the windowsill. This has led to the faster ones being quite leggy. I think soil-wise we are OK, here in Sussex. The weeds are certainly going for it anyway! I will try some fleece at night, you are right that it gets the extremes in the plastic shelter, registered 35 during the hot spell and is only protected from the wind at night, albeit placed against a south facing wall. This was only a temporary measure while I procured a suitable second hand greenhouse.
I do wonder about compost quality. These were sown in last year’s peat free that had been standing (unopened) behind the shed since the early autumn. I also did not bother to sieve and I noticed some seedlings struggling to push out from under larger lumps. Last time I tried sieved, I was left with some badly draining “mud” so now avoid it.