packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Rain and my work schedule has just ruined my gardening for the foreseeable future. That didn't keep me from trying this Spring. The garden spot got dry enough to get it tilled and rowed up, but too late for any bedding plants to have a chance of success. I decided to try direct seeding of bush beans and purple hull peas. The cream zippers and lima beans did not germinate. Anyhow, I didn't have the time or energy to tend to the weeding, and it shows. I have a noxious weed in my garden, that I think came from bags of cheap commercial manure and potting soil. I've never seen this weed on my property before in the 30 years I've lived here. It has little, sharp needle spurs at the leaf nodes, that hurt like hell when you touch them.
So far, all I've harvested is two batches of green bean, enough to have as a side dish at dinner. Yea!
Could you get a better photo of the leaves/stems of that weed for us? If it's not native you may want to report this to your local ag extension, those bags of soil you purchase should NOT have any viable weed seeds in the soil/hummus/manure. I know it happens but it's a horrible way to introduce a fairly aggressive invasive plant into an area.