I grew mine from seeds this time for the first time in years. I always used to do it this way.
What I do is to soak the seeds in water overnight. I pack cardboard toilet roll inners into one of the blue plastic deep mushroom containers from the supermarket (with a few holes in the bottom to let it drain.) and almost fill up with compost. Each drained seed goes into its own personal tube with compost on top covering the top of the tubes and filling the spaces. If there are more seeds than tubes, some can go into the gaps between.
I do this in October and keep them somewhere reasonably sheltered in the garden over winter. When I am ready to plant them, I bury each tube and plant in a deep enough hole - their roots hven't tangled up with each other, they are contained in the tubes.