SoCalGardenNut said:I sowed them in my compost. I covered them too. Mostly clay soil here.
I'm still not understanding.
Did you bury the seeds in your compost pile?
When I've sown seeds in the native soil types we have here in middle Georgia... I get poor results... every time.
By top dressing the soil first, I usually achieve some measure of success.
When I've gardened in areas that had decent soil, (Think mid-west), topdressing the soil first wasn't required.
If you saw seeds from the compost growing... that seems like the compost was not to blame for your seeds not growing.... But rather... something else.
