A Volunteer Raised Bed

[AlittleSalt]

One of our 12x5.5' raised beds has many volunteer tomatoes growing in it. I just took bamboo skewers and marked every volunteer or group of volunteer tomatoes. There are 29 skewers in that bed and more than 29 tomato plants.

I was thinking about a thread were Carolyn was talking/writing about letting tomatoes sprawl. (I don't remember the thread title). But these volunteer tomatoes in this bed could be left to sprawl? I had planned on planting peppers in this bed, but peppers will grow anywhere here - I'll just have to figure out where. We have 10 acres, so growing space isn't a problem.

I would imagine the volunteers are mostly cherry tomatoes since that's what I grew most last year and the years before. Those tomatoes were grown around 100' away from this new bed.

Anyway, what would you do in this situation?