the volunteers

The garden is beautiful and green.  Basically, we're just waiting for our winter crops to run their course so we can get tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant in the ground.  I've pulled up quite a few beets, collards, and spinach mustard.  The broccoli is slowly coming in:

 The kale was a late bloomer:

 And so were the carrots:

 And now for a pleasant surprise:

Volunteers!  We had a tomato plant here last summer and now we have 7 volunteers in its place.  Volunteers are plants that you haven't actually planted.  They could be from seeds dropped by birds or a tomato that fell on the ground last summer, the latter is probably the most likely possibility.  This is great; I had no luck starting seedlings indoors, and now we shouldn't have to buy any tomato plants.