Grass sucks. You can have mine.We had a vegetable garden for a number of years. Between the deer and the rabbits we took it out and planted flowers that attracted bees and hummingbirds. Worked quite well too. For some reason my wife decided to have me take that garden out and plant grass instead.
So for 2024 I am growing grass...
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Lil’ hop babies are sticking their heads out.
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They’re up!
My kids made the same observation!Oh, they smell SO GOOD!
I don’t brew, I just like the way they look and smell! Not ruling out brewing someday, but I’ve been assistant on enough buddies’ brews to know that I’m probably not fastidious enough to make good beer.What variety of hops are you growing? Are you a brewer?
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I no longer grow hops (man, the rhizomes love to travel), like you I love the smell and I think the vines are very pretty. Initially I grew them for a friend who brewed for decades. I helped him maybe a dozen times; he was fastidious with his brewing, kept detailed notes over all those years so he was able to consistently get "Herb's Perfect Porter" and so on..........I had Cascades and I forget the other one.I don’t brew, I just like the way they look and smell! Not ruling out brewing someday, but I’ve been assistant on enough buddies’ brews to know that I’m probably not fastidious enough to make good beer.
I’ve got citra and one other that I’ve forgotten. Just two rhizomes - started them in pots back when I lived in an apartment and transferred them to my raised bed a couple years ago. They didn’t get well established until last summer.
I’m hoping to propagate them this year by splitting off some of the bines- need to do some research.
That’s a great looking crop you’ve got there! What did you end up brewing with them?
That’s funny - our stories are pretty similar, minus a few decades on my end! I need to find someone to give all my hops away to rather than letting them rot on the vine.I no longer grow hops (man, the rhizomes love to travel), like you I love the smell and I think the vines are very pretty. Initially I grew them for a friend who brewed for decades. I helped him maybe a dozen times; he was fastidious with his brewing, kept detailed notes over all those years so he was able to consistently get "Herb's Perfect Porter" and so on..........I had Cascades and I forget the other one.
For at least some of my vegetable garden planting I have noted this change optimum time to plant some crops change over the last 50 years. At the start of that period for example the best time to plant my green beans was early to mid-June and now it seems to be nearly month earlier. I typically make several plants each season and clearly the earlier plants have been doing better on the average (also so year to year variation).Just saw this article. Interesting stuff…
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