Beautiful! I love wood/trees too, leaning to Oak. I built my bar from oak harvested not far from here. When I bought my property the first thing I did was start planting trees every year, turning our farm land back to a forest.
I would consider building a 12" deep box ( wish I had done this with mine at the start ) around those hops to keep them from roaming under ground and popping up in a different variety's area in about 3 years. My 3 year plants are space the same distance as yours but I put 3 grouped together, 3 Comet then further down the fence line another group of 3 Cashmere. The bines run forever under weed fabric to reach the light of day, and will run for feet under ground and pop up in the yard as far as a few feet away from where the crown is located. So many roots and shoots coming from every where. I'm going to try and retro fix my 2nd year hops after this season that are on the fence that borders my neighbors. I don't want these beasts ( Centennial, and Cascade ) invading his yard.
Whoa. Some of us die hard Iron Maiden fans have hearts, hops, and tomatoes too !
I think I have some sheet metal lying around, that and a good old sledge should do the trick.
Check out the crown on this 3 years old cutting that @Hanglow posted on a different thread. Compare that to the size of his foot. That is what is lurking underground on my back alley hops 3rd year, and my 2 year hops on neighbor property line are what I think I need to address. I may also try to drive some sheet steel down instead of digging up everything if the roots allow.
I have the same chair !
I used the plastic sectional pound in edging, think it is 6" tall, to help keep my bines from spreading. It could be due to having clay loam soil is helping keep them in check too.
That's a shame, I assume no signs of sprouting is your indicator of their demise?
It may be different varieties. I have some growing like crazy while Saaz is only 4 inches tall. Hoping this year I get something off the Saaz its 2nd yr growth.5 of my 6 plants are climbing the ropes, probably 24" tall while last one is maybe 4" tall, the others had already had the bull shoots cut by the time it decided to join the party. Strange winter maybe had an influence
this is sad news, I was so looking forward to see what the varieties looked like. its possible some still may survive, give them a little time. also , your surrounding area looks perfect for hops, nettles means good soil, poplar I think has a sort of symbiosis with hops(also willow).
Yeah, I planted mine way too close. Last year when I went to harvest I realized that half of what I thought were my Triple Pearl hops were actually a stray Chinook bine that popped up over there. I ended up just mixing together all my harvested cones, since they where hard to separate and were 80% Chinook anyway. I still need to brew with those from last year!
