I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know everything about growing hops, that's for sure, but like everything else brewing related, I want to mark it off the list of things to try in this hobby.
Looking around my house for somewhere decent to plant them was not promising. Hops need at least 6-8 hours of sun a day, so the south facing side of the home is ideal. The only place I could find was at the woods edge behind our house which is partly shady and gets around 4-5 hours a day. There were two trees relatively close to each other that could work well.
After reading a bit online about different ways to secure the hops, I came up with a pretty cheap solution to use some clothes line kits from an all purpose store like Walmart. The kind I bought had a small steel braided cable with green plastic casing and few pieces of hardware for the end pieces. Since I bought a few packs, I had enough parts to run a cable from tree to tree and four more that hang down for each plant. [Read More]
Looking around my house for somewhere decent to plant them was not promising. Hops need at least 6-8 hours of sun a day, so the south facing side of the home is ideal. The only place I could find was at the woods edge behind our house which is partly shady and gets around 4-5 hours a day. There were two trees relatively close to each other that could work well.
After reading a bit online about different ways to secure the hops, I came up with a pretty cheap solution to use some clothes line kits from an all purpose store like Walmart. The kind I bought had a small steel braided cable with green plastic casing and few pieces of hardware for the end pieces. Since I bought a few packs, I had enough parts to run a cable from tree to tree and four more that hang down for each plant. [Read More]