I don't believe I will be the one to identify this plant for you but I can certainly help get your hopes up that they are actually something cool before you find out they are just weeds...well now that I see the serrated leaf edges now I'm leaning just more toward some weed, but they do look similair to goji berries which I have just started growing recently, but you would know if they were them because the stem would be woody at some point or at least the whole plant would be a lot more stiff and supported than any weed and goji berry has thicker leaves ok nevermind I think this is definitely some weed... but what you wrote about it being an 8x8 patch and the fact that that patch is then surrounded by a blackberry patch (remember blackberries are spiky) sounds to me like there is a slight chance somebody had a patch of something they wanted to keep hidden or at least inaccessible by others. Now I'm not saying this looks like cannabis to me, in my opinion it does not, not at all, but, we must always remember, there is a form of cannabis (I believe it may be cannabis rudimentialis) that does not grow the same type of buds that are sought after in the medicinal cannabis markets for thc extraction, no they don't produce thc or cbd or anything really in much vast quantities so they are used first and foremost for the production of hemp, which, is starting to become legal again in some states! hemp is better for producing paper and other textiles, and is starting to be regarded as vastly superior, and thereby acceptable, America should be tired from getting all their hemp shipped in from other countries by now anywhow, sorry I'm sure I've confused you enough... my rule I follow is I wait tilll I see flower then i ask everyone if they can identify it by the flower before I decide it's a weed... but sometimes u just know... but u just don't want to believe...

It had been in a bigger pot since I got it as a band in Sept, 2007. I planted it in Jan, 2008, and this photo was taken on 2/8/08. So it was pretty little but not a band. A month later it had a flower bud on it. Interestingly, with the same clusters of leaves and a bud at the end of the cane. I guess that's just how it gets going. It still has these short thin canes. It put out 2 or 3 big basal canes last year and several thin laterals in the top third. The posts are 8' tall, so I'd say her growth is about 11' at this point. I'm going to have to put a couple brackets on those posts toward the garage for her to climb on. Sherry

Cindy I was just watering some plants that I don't often move because they are on a self watering tray. My Hoya praetorii and Hoya lasiantha are on the tray along with a Rhipsalis sp and Eria javanica. I was noticing how my Hoya lasiantha has developed a branch with a peduncle near it's base. When I moved to water my Eria I noticed there was a peduncle with 10 buds but the buds were resting on the potting mix that the orchid grows in and when I touched them they all dropped. Other than loosing the buds I am excited that my Hoya lasiantha has developed into a three growth plant with peduncles on each branch of the main stem. Hopefully there will be more buds to follow, it must be the season for this species to bloom if both of ours are producing buds. Mike

It shouldn't be too hot for you to grow tomatoes - depending on where you are you may just have to adjust WHEN you grow them. My soil is crap too, tomatoes don't really seem to mind with even a little amending. I would thin them or you will likely end up with a diseased tomato jungle, and they will crowd out the smaller ornamental plants you have already. I do at a minimum 3' from center stem to center stem, more is better if you can, though. It just helps to keep down disease and insect problems around here. You could also try to carefully shovel out the rootball of the volunteers and replant if you have other places to put them and don't want to kill them. I've found volunteers are pretty resilient to being moved if you do it carefully, and replant them deeper than the original soil line.