Seeds, doing what they want.

What is it with seeds?  You do your best,  new potting compost,  clean pots,  warm weather,  lids for the night in case the temperature drops....  and sometimes green shoots appear within days,  other times - nada.  Nothing. 

And then as you are looking around at last years raised bed,  (the bottle garden)  and watering,  and   'oh! what's that?  looks like a cucumber,  and another'....

As you might have guessed, that's what has happened to us.  On the 1st April we planted lots of seeds,  maybe the wrong day? something having a joke on us?  but out of 30 sweetcorn we have 26 plants up,  40 home dried tomato seeds have so far produced 15 seedlings,  the squash are not far behind with 7 up, but the 6 cucumbers have done nothing.  Now 6 may not seem many but you never know how many will produce cucs  -  last year we had a glut from just 2 plants,  enough to eat fresh whenever we needed and the rest I pickled for out of season.  Still have 5 jars of sliced pickled cucs till this lot get going...

So today I planted 6 more seeds,  these from one of last year's cucs,  the previous 6 were from the packet,  and then this evening we were watering the raised 'bottle bed'  and I saw not just one but two baby cucumber plants!   I can only think that a cucumber fell off the plant last summer and got dug in,  and as John has pointed out,  if they have taken till now to germinate and grow,  there is still hope for our first 6 seeds,  and now I've done another 6 seeds....we may be completely overrun with cucs.