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Let's see if this works... Click this link for more info and to register. http://www.uvm.edu/extension/cropsoil/wp-content/uploads/hopsMA8142012.pdf

BEst to start by taking a soil sample and sending it for analysis to your state college soils lab. This will give you a jumping off point and recommendations on how to ammend your soil for your hops. Also, looks like a nice choice for yourarea...

B-Hoppy said it best. Also might try to propegate those root cuttings into new plants indoors.

All you can do is keep them watered... We just got our drip irrigation in and attached a 300 gallon water buffalo to the line. Takes ~6 hours to empty but the plants seem happier.

Lookin' good for year one. Remember there may not be muchabove ground but underground those roots are getting established. Our 1st year were only about 4 feet tall and we got a small paint bucket for our harvest on 400 plants. This year everything is over 10 feet now and looking great. Just...

GVH Dan... Just voted for you... The info you"re offering up is great!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I have extensive training in propagation techniques ( plus i have been to horticulture college) and thru doing a few trials test first, i will be able to clone these plants in the 1000's.. LMAO So exactly how much weed did you grow in college?!?!

Rudds... Check out the UVM Plant & Soils site. The past two years they have hosted a Hops Conference in early March. They started a hopyard and have had some very good speakers the last two years. I'm ramping up do do something similar for next spring (in negotiations with a landowner now)...

3 bombers from Berkshire Brewing would be just dandy and leave enough for a Slim Jim for dinner...

Check with a local landscaper for grass clippings... Put those nice abd heavy...

Just a thought to try and get some mulch around the plants to help with the weed control. Nice setup.

We did ours 1 per hill 36" apart and it seemed to work out nicely. That was last year and this year we just trimmed them back and got them climbing up the twine. We also planted them late last year on the 4th of July. They're looking great this year. Will post some pics soon.

Thanks for the link... I'm definately starting this on Friday. At least we'll establish some bines for next season...

Last year we put ~400 directly into the ground and I'd say we had a 95% success. This year out of 100 rhizomes planted only 2 crowns so far... Oh well, that's farming. Still going to call the distributer...

T he story of how hopped beer came to replace gruited ale is a complex and convoluted one, with origins in both the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. An anti-gruit campaign, similar in scope and absurdity to our contemporary War On Drugs, fed off the anti-clerical and...

thanks LabRat... I'm going to try this and see where it leads. Did youo put the clipping directly into potting soil or just in water until roots satrted forming? I have access to plenty of clippings and might try both methods if time allows.

Well I had the best intentions and planted 16-20 rhizomes in 11 pots three weeks ago in a great growing medium and now I have a bunch of pots w/ rotten sticks in them... That's the bad news... As for good news our 2nd year crop is taking off phenominally. My question... Has anybody taken...

I knew there where other geniuses that had gone this road... Looks great Jem. I just tapped my first keg Wednesday... Lots of foam but fairly flat. Still tasted nice but I think I need to tweek my process. Initially hit it with 30lbs, 3 times. Left in basement at ~60*F for three weeks and...

I'm going to flush this idea out some more... BUT the wife does leave for a conference next week so maybe I'll surprise her with a little modification...:D

Had the crazy idea today of mounting a coldplate exchanger in the back of my fridge and running a couple of tap lines from outside in and putting a perlick or two on the side of the fridge. Has anybody tried this and what were your results? Seems like it would save on running another fridge as...