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Saccharo - I'm from IL too, used to live up in the far west burbs of Chicago. We are down here in Johnston Co (still Raleigh, go figure) now. Yea, I've read the stories about different varietals being too close, etc. What i plan on doing this fall is putting in a barrier between the...

Here we are just into June and the girls are doing well I've cleaned up the weeds and put in some mulch. It also looks like a few flowers are coming in on the magnums as well.

Hey guys, just at 6 weeks and i have 11 of 12 climbing. 2 of the Magnums are going strong at about 4 feet. Here is the updated pics. Obviously i need to do a little more weeding, but I have pulled anything close to each of the plants.

Also in Raleigh but out in Johnston Co. Being from the midwest I thought I was moving away from the tornadoes, but apparently not. Glad you were able to still finish the brew, some folks were not as lucky that day. I've been checking out this site for a while, but just signed up for the...

Looks good to me. I used a similar approach with the 4x4's buried and ran wire back to match roof line of my storage shed. It works well, but one thing that i noticed that without a guy line to counterbalance the tension between the two 4x4's you might not get the top line super tight, if that...

Thanks guys, Its been about 3 weeks since i planted them and all 12 have broke the surface. Two of them are almost a foot, so I'm pretty happy. Here are a couple pics of the 'leaders', these are Magnums by the way, we just bottled a batch of Irish Red ale last night and initial...

I definitely wasn't excited about using the 'chicken wire' but i need something to keep my dog out of the beds.

This is my first attempt at growing hops and would be interested in any feedback some of you more seasoned growers have. I ordered 12 rhizomes from Northwest hops. 4 each of Centennial, Magnum, Mt. Hood. I didn't have the soil tested but there was only 3-5 inches of before it went to mostly...