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I would suspect they are too cold. Instruction with my seed from Real Seeds suggests 25C. My squash, melon, cucumber and courgette seed certainly shot up in a few days at this temperature. I doubt they are too old: once again some info gleaned from Real Seeds – the seed saving instructions suggest they are good for 10 years
Sounds like they are getting spindly. I wouldn’t trim them, but now they’ve germinated, I’d grow them on somewhere cooler so they don’t get drawn. Last year I moved mine onto a hotbed in my greenhouse (my first go at that) where they got full daylight and they did fine, even through the beast from the east
I just use a bit of trial and error with various mesh sizes to take out coarser chaff first, then smaller mesh until not possible to separate seeds from chaff, then it’s on to winnowing. Just pick the mesh by eye, according to hiw big seeds and debris pieces look. Sometimes, winnowing alone will do it. Here’s a vid on leek seeds – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2rHxMD8bWo
Assume you are referring to separation of seed from chaff etc. I have a soil seive with interchangeable 3/5/7mm meshwhich I use. Also a tea strainer can come in handy. Always end up winnowing though, to remove chaff that’s a similar size to the seed. There’s a design for a DIY winnower on Real Seeds website – http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedcleaner.html
Depends whether the weed seeds arrived before or after the horse muck was composted. The heat of composting will kill weed seeds, but if it’s old well-rotted muck, it will have accumulated viable seeds post-composting
I’ve used opinels over 40 years. They do the job, and not too dear when you lose it. No 6 or 7 is big enough for me