The year of volunteer

In the past I've had a veggie volunteer or two, and I always get lots of borage.  But this year I have lots of volunteers.  It has been a cooler than normal spring, and I have been working on improving my soil, by adding compost, and I added composted wood chips and chicken manure from my coop.  I'm not sure why, but I have several of each tomato I planted, one even came up in the wood chip c path.  Lots of radishes, and flowers.  One of my veggie beds is about a third full, and I haven't planted anything yet. I don't know why, but  It's pretty cool.

I love it when this happens - especially if it happens where you can leave the plant to grow.

I have a great seed bank in my polytunnel of kale, chickweed, miners lettuce, perpetual spinach and fat hen. In the early spring I can pick as much fresh salad as I like normally, without having sown anything myself for years!


A nice problem to have

This year has been different since I have no cover on my tunnel at  the moment :( The claytonia and kale are doing pretty well though.

I'd quite like some lettuce to seed around as well, but that so far doesn't seem to be as good a survivor and I'm yet to get seeds off them.

There were a few more suggestions for plants that may volunteer in a beneficial way on this thread:
https://permies.com/t/163039/Establishing-Annual-Vegetables-Native-Property#1277737