IanP
Well-Known Member
I have a sudden hop emergency! SWMBO has recently decided that we must replace the siding on our house and garage, which is fine except my hops are planted along my garage wall and are climbing strings attached to hooks at the top of the wall. There are three hills with two rhizomes in each. The Cascades have done pretty well and have three good bines, two about 8' high. The Golding are small (2' and seem to have stopped) and the Willamette are even smaller.
When the siding guy visited he told me the area the hops are planted will get trampled by his team of guys, so they need to be moved or suffer the consequences . I have nowhere else to plant them, so I figure I should move them to containers while the job is done, then replant them. Is this likely to work, or will it do them a lot of harm to mvoe them in the middle of the growing season? The job is scheduled to start in about 4 weeks, so what is my best strategy - (a) move them now while they are smaller, but meaning they will be in the containers for nearly two months, or (b) let them grow and get stronger where they are, and move them at the last minute so they will only be in the containers for maybe 3 weeks? Help!
When the siding guy visited he told me the area the hops are planted will get trampled by his team of guys, so they need to be moved or suffer the consequences . I have nowhere else to plant them, so I figure I should move them to containers while the job is done, then replant them. Is this likely to work, or will it do them a lot of harm to mvoe them in the middle of the growing season? The job is scheduled to start in about 4 weeks, so what is my best strategy - (a) move them now while they are smaller, but meaning they will be in the containers for nearly two months, or (b) let them grow and get stronger where they are, and move them at the last minute so they will only be in the containers for maybe 3 weeks? Help!