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After massive hail storm killed off 3 of my 5 first years I just picked up 2 cascades and 1 nugget to get some late season growth. Hope they take and are ready to grow like crazy next year.

Thanks Durty. My only concern is that they weren't really taking off before hand but I didn't get them in the ground till beginning of June so I may have stunted their growth I'm that regard. But CO did have a super late summer so we were dealing with cold Temps most way through May.

It was a sad week for my first year hops and garden. 30 straight minutes of pea sized hail really takes its toll

Didn't touch the wood outside of putting it together. The weather shield was that red in store.

Didn't touch the wood outside of putting it together. The weather shield was that red in store.

New trellis homes

Nursery

This is my first year with hops and as usual I decide to go all out first thing out of the gate. First pick is my mini nursery of the hop first years I got last week and the second is their permanent homes I built with a friend this weekend. Just had a big hail storm here in CO so prob good...

I used the new weather shield pressure treaded wood safe for gardens. The dimension of each box base is 10w x 3d x 18 inch H. Boards for base were 1x6s. Each box will be filled with 12 inches of good gardening potting/top soil with 6 inches original clay underneath. The trellis is built with...

I truly appreciate the compliment

Built two awesome homes for my hops.

Made my honey red to go with my Better Be Sippin' Cider (9.3 abv)

First beer out of the new rig. Couldn't taste better

I am a proud new papa