How long will these seeds take to grow?

I have had chives in a large pot in my garden for 5years and they were all supermarket pots planted up, as a matter of fact they don`t seem so good this year so i was going to buy a couple of pots and start again

 

well it was 2 1/2 weeks ago when i sowed my chive seeds are there is nothing yet :(
The spinach are still coming through ok though. Ive also sown some lavender and dill seeds, as well as sage and parsley (only a few days ago).

Maybe i should do what you did pamsdish and just buy supermarket ones. I did that with my mint which ive had for over a year now and it still looks fab!! (although it did very almost die 'cos i didn't water it for ages! poor thing)

Ive watered the seed tray again where the chives have been shown, although the compost was moist anyway, i thought it was worth a try as i haven't watered it since the seeds were sown 2 1/2 weeks ago. I starting to think i just haven't got the hang of it?

 

"I just could not get my parsnip to germinate"

I've read that a lot this year, and had the same problem (although I think I bought mine in the Summer Seed Sale last year, so probably "stale" anyway).

I had better success chitting on kitchen paper and then carefully transplanting immediately they chitted into newspaper pots with an inch of reused seed sowing compost on top of normal multi-compost. But it took me the whole of April and May to get a full "batch" of plants :(