Cucumber plants came back this year

I know cucumbers are supposed to be annuals but we went to set out our garden yesterday and where we always pant our cucumbers there are several “clusters” of small cucumber plants coming up. Anyone else ever have this happen before? This is a first for me. I read it can happen but not very common. I’m guessing maybe it’s from one of our cucumbers that rotted on the ground late in the season, dropping its seeds into the dirt. Who knows?

Yeah, i would say its from seed, not root stock.

Volunteers is what I've always heard em called. Just seeds from last year's crop.

yep a rotten one fell off and the seeds went dormant underground. Have that happen every year with tomatoes and they are usually pretty strong plants FWIW

Yep. Definitely not from root stock.

Interesting to see if they are true to what you planted last year . Hybrid sweet slice / burpless type may not be the same ?

Never had cucumbers do that, but I generally always have zinnias come back from seed.