I give up.
I started late due to problems.
1) Outside seedlings pecked out by blackbirds!
2) Sparrow inside greenhouse - pecked all seedlings.
Back to Tesco - innit?
I have a glut!
My other half demanded salad this year - something I have always avoided - so we now have the opposite to you Telboy, 6 types of lettuce, plus radicchio and chicory.
I would rather have grown more swedes and parsnips.
Oh, and rocket...
Envy - you ain't seen it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give it one more try. Get a flower pot and half fill it with compost, put a small pinch of seeds thinly on top and cover with a little more compost.
Then put a little plastic bag over the top propped up with wood skewers (to form a tent).
When the seedlings come through, separate each into their own pots.
Plant out, hiding them under taller plants.
or
You can make a 'cats cradle' with string over them tied to canes If you can't find a suitable plant to grow them under.
The birds wont go near because they wont stay on the ground anywhere that they can't quickly fly off from.