Late fall gardening

I went outside earlier to dig over the vegetable garden and the compost before winter hits. I have an eight by six garden with roughly half given over to compost and the other to plants, and I rotate sections year by year. Just at the edge, the border between soil and compost I found a few dozen beans plants sprouting.

This time last year we had just over a foot of snow on the ground, this tyear I've got bean plants sprouting - on their own, no less, they're the result of some beans pods that got buried in the compost - and the parsley, thyme, and kale are still going strong. I've got a few carrots left in too. Apparently carrots will self-seed, so I'm leaving a few in the garden and seeing what happens. Someone told me that if you let carrots grow wild they'll push out the weeds and I would rather have the carrots.

I think some of the hostas are trying to make a comeback too, but you can't kill those so they don't count.