There are. SO many plants (and a few dried clay fragments that may have been a pot or planter box at one point underneath and buried in the soil). There are quite a few clustered plants, and though many of them are being choked out by the vines trying to reclaim this entire area, if he digs a little, he'll find...

...well, they don't look like earth root vegetables. But they're root vegetables! Probably!

Growing nearby on a particularly strong vine are these fruits.