wulfae
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I moved into a rental house last winter, and found out mid way through last summer that those terrible vines in the garden that were scratching my arms up were actually hops vines! What a discovery!
I had intended to harvest them and dry them out to make my own beer, but I left it too long and they looked like they were spotted with black mould. Disappointed, I resolved to do better next year.
Well, that time is now, and I went out this morning to start to train my hops vine up a string to a handy pole that was in the garden (for this very purpose, I can only assume). However, I found two spots where the vines were growing, maybe two metres apart.
I gave the forums a quick look, but what I wanted to know was if I actually had two plants? Or if it's just shoots from one that have gone over and grown up, and will then be sucking vigour out of the main plant? How can I tell, do I just carefully check to see if it has it's own rhizome?
P: Typing it out, it seems a little silly, but the hops grew so wild last year that I'd really like to try to control it this year. And it would be so fancy to have hops vines trained!
I had intended to harvest them and dry them out to make my own beer, but I left it too long and they looked like they were spotted with black mould. Disappointed, I resolved to do better next year.
Well, that time is now, and I went out this morning to start to train my hops vine up a string to a handy pole that was in the garden (for this very purpose, I can only assume). However, I found two spots where the vines were growing, maybe two metres apart.
I gave the forums a quick look, but what I wanted to know was if I actually had two plants? Or if it's just shoots from one that have gone over and grown up, and will then be sucking vigour out of the main plant? How can I tell, do I just carefully check to see if it has it's own rhizome?
P: Typing it out, it seems a little silly, but the hops grew so wild last year that I'd really like to try to control it this year. And it would be so fancy to have hops vines trained!
