Hops are not tropical plants. They come from latitudes well into the 40s in places where the winters can be very cold like a couple of hundred miles either side of the US/Canada border. You can always lay a nice layer of mulch over the beds but you shouldn't have any problems.
Hops grow in the UP of Michigan quite well. They are positively aggressive, mostly. I grow 9 varieties, but willamette will NOT grow here. I've tried several times. I'm inland, away from the Great Lakes, so we are usually one of the coldest spots in the midwest in the winter. They are popping up under my deck and all over my yard- they are not easy to get rid of, and super easy to grow.
I grow mine up trellises, and up over the green house, and up the side of the garage, and up a telephone pole, and they seem just fine.
I'm not sure what the average temperatures are here, but in January it's pretty common to have a week or two that never gets above 0, and easily hits -30 or so as a low. Those are farenheit, so that would be be under -17C for a couple of weeks as a high, and -37C at night when it's colder for a few nights.
I live in Manitoba where the capital is nicknamed Winterpeg, the coldest i have experienced is -50c, which was only 45 mins from the USA border. That cold temp can last a month but usually only a week or two. However, we still have a solid summer its all farmland here. Its +20c today and will get into the mid to upper 30's mid-summer. it's rough on people when it can change 80 degrees year to year, And plants.
My wife was talking to her grandma she has a yard like Butchart gardens and says hops thrive here there just like weeds here too. never knew she had experience with them.
We do have high winds here as we are in the flatlands lol this is why i thought growing on a pergola would be a good idea? Thoughts?
Google says the record cold for Winnipeg is -45C. GOOD TRY.
But I'll assume you are talking with the windshield/humidex factor (if not exaggerating), which is irrelevant due to the hop rhizomes being underground. You also get a lot of snow I THINK? Snow helps insulate the ground. In any case, Manitoba is home to a lot of wild hops. I wouldn't sweat it, you don't have it all that bad.
Ah, you are assuming i live in or near Winnipeg though ;p i dont. Thats just our capital. I live about 2 hours out of Winnipeg a stone throws from the USA border.
When i experienced that -50 i was living in a small remote camp working for a gold exploration company cutting stright as a arrow trails through the bush for gps mapping the ground so they could track and find the gold.. That was in ontartio not even manitoba lol (about 6 hours east of here)
Any who getting off topic great to know they can and thrive up here. thanks everyone!
Edite: that -50 was a freak cold front. But heck we have been having a lot of freak storms around here. 2 feet of snow in less then 24 hours in the fall that while the trees still had leaves, Power out for 3 weeks for some. 3” hail ... I tell yeah the weather is crazy these days
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