It's not working!

Hi

My veggie plot is not working! I'v planted some cucumbers and they are ok but every thing thats gone in as seed is not doing a thing.
I'm waiting for carrots,parsnips,baby leeks and runner bean all sown over 2 weeks ago.The plot was freshly manured and dug over a week before sowing, have I done something wrong or should I change my hobby?
Do you think it's anything to do with the weather and would a polly tunnel help to warm things up.
Our soil is high in clay by the way.

hi nicky

                         our peasand broad beans took longer than 2 weeks to

                         to start growing so they could still come,carrots and

                         parsips normaly fork when grown in manured soil

                         but still eatable ,took about a month for our parsnips

                         id give up on them but there doing well now

Nicky you say you have a clay soil, sometimes after rain it can form a "cap" which a lot of seeds cannot break through, it's possible this has happened to you.
If the soil looks like a great smoothish slab rather than crumbs it has capped, bit hard to explain but once you have seen it you'll know what I mean.

You can avoid this happening by covering your seeds with multi-purp rather than raking back the soil to cover.

Hope this helps