Search results

My two terriers keep them out of my yard and off my hops. They are squirrel and rabbit exterminators.

I am also in St. Louis with second year hops. Mine are doing the same thing. We are past the last (hopefully) below freezing temps so I plan on training two bines per rope with three ropes per plant. I am going to trim off the biggest bines to eliminate the chance of training a bull shoot...

I grew Cascade, Centennial, Columbus, and Nugget in containers last year. The "C" hops all did well. Nugget struggled. I live in St. Louis and will see how year 2 goes. Growing in 20 gallon containers for now. Learned a lot last year. Feel free to ask any questions. I grow all organic...

Over 3 months later and the current results are better than expected. The Cascades and Centennials are doing well. I added two containers of Columbus and an extra Cascade to the mix. Lost one container of Nuggets due to disease (downy mildew I believe). It appears that I will have a decent...

My hops are ahead of our climate schedule because I started them indoors in one gallon containers in mid March. The weather cycle looked to be good but unfortunately we have some borderline temps hitting Friday night and Saturday night. I will have to cover them just in case. The good news is...

I will be able to just unhook them from the trees at the top and lower them down. Just hope they will not be too heavy, at least not the first year.

Finally finished getting my hops project completed and wanted to post some photos. I have 18 rhizomes total - 6 Cascade, 6 Centennial, 6 Nugget - in large containers (2 per) with 16 foot runs for them. I decided to utilize existing trees as "posts" in my backyard and plant in containers...