My wife keep saying that she was going to surprise me this year for my birthday. She was absolutely right...I always thought about planting hops but I hesitated for one reason or another. Well, she went ahead and did the research about raising them....looked through my recipe book for which ones that I use...contacted a hops seller...went out to buy the supplies and had it planted by birthday...May 15th. She even wants to take care of growing them which is fine with me since she has a greener thumb than me.