Hi Dave,
Adding vermiculite or perlite, Charles like vermiculite, to your sowing compost helps the draining and lumpy issues. I saw somewhere on the forum that making a little fingertip hollow and putting seed in that without covering worked well – a little moist chamber. I’m experimenting with it.
Old compost is not good news for seedlings, but you could spread as a mulch or put in as layers in your compost bin.
Out on the soggy plot this morning, but at least it wasn’t raining. The autumn sown plants are not phased by this cold and rainy period. I have kale, purple sprouting broccoli, Kallettes, spinach, lettuce to pick from last year, with broad beans sown November now flowering, chard beetroot and carrots coming along.
Warmer weather is coming, happy planting
