Additional pictures solve the mystery. It's yellow nutsedge. It was already in the soil and it took off when you worked it. You probably had some chufas growing there at first, but the nutgrass had taken over now. I can show you fields on my place where the same thing has happened, despite me fighting it best I can.

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All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.