Is anyone else ridiculously optimistic?

[cupcake]

Just don't tell the government or they'll tax us on it

[falkon]

some seeds are faster in germinating e.g. sweet corn as u can expect them to germinate within 24 hours of sowing...
Also once a batch u sowed starts germinating, the situation changes every hour and u will notice that every time u look into the seed tray there is another one popping out ....

[binley100]

See there IS a good reason to keep checking.....

[COMPOST CORNER]

Hooray! My first seedlings are through.
Just checked in the heated germination room (airing cupboard) to find, and I hesitate to use a technical term, Oodles of leek and onion seedlings just poppoing through.

[ginger ninger]

WOOOOP WOOOOO for Compost Corner...

[binley100]

I hope you've now moved them out of the aforementioned germination room Compost corner and moved something else in.

[weekendwellies]

Mine are on the kitchen windowsill in front of me when I wash up, so........ I watch them all the time to see what is happening

Surely this is normal behaviour?

Actually, I think there is a good reason why we all do this. Seriously. It really is a survival skill !
If you can, imagine the multitude of variables that were affecting the environment around stone age man. He could not predict a single thing on the basis of understanding processes; all he could do was observe what happened in minute detail, and try to link cause and effect. Or at the least, try to predict on the basis of things that happen more or less consecutively. Molehills popping up all over the place suddenly ? Songbirds fighting hard over food bushes ? Here comes a spell of hard winter weather...Watch carefully and use your brain to make connections, or die. Primitive ? Yes, but not stupid.
So when he (or more likely I think, she) started to grow plants, watching what conditions affected the seeds or tubers was a vital part of the process. The soil dried out ? Ah, maybe that's why the parsnips never germinated...

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Yeah, what they said...