sconsi
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2008
- Messages
- 46
- Reaction score
- 36
Hey guys,
Since the hop growing season is about to start, or has already started for you lucky individuals in warmer climates. I want to tell everyone about a great soil additive that was introduced to me by a professional landscaper last year that really boosted my hop growth. It's not something that you would use all season, but it will definitely give your hops a good boost at the beginning of the growing season.
To give you a little back story on my hops that I planted last year. I got rhizomes from the Colonial Williamsburg nursery. I saw hops growing in the colonial garden and got to talking to the gardener about them. I asked if they ever sold dormant rhizomes (it was the middle of June). She said no, but they do like to share, and she dug them out of the ground right then and there for me.
I was worried that the rhizomes would not grow because they were dug up when they were fully active and very susceptible to transplant shock. I was very careful to give them the soil that they wanted, and in a few weeks they started coming up.
Then my friend suggested that I get this stuff called "Bumper Crop" made by Coast of Maine. It's what he describes as "Miracle Grow on Steroids." He once placed it on a aqua garden that was near a stump for a tree that had been cut down 5 years prior, the stump was drilled, then salted. The Bumper Crop caused the tree to start growing again.
I cannot tell you how magic this stuff is. My hops were growing inches a day before I started using it, then I threw on a bag and they started growing feet a day.
It's really easy to use, just spread a bag of the dirt over you growing area, and when it rains next all of the nutrients are absorbed by the soil and you get good growth. It's all organic and all natural, so unlike Miracle Grow it won't leave your plants vacant of nutrients after it's gone.
Check it out, I swear by it and so does the nursery I buy it from. They go through pallets of it every week.
Since the hop growing season is about to start, or has already started for you lucky individuals in warmer climates. I want to tell everyone about a great soil additive that was introduced to me by a professional landscaper last year that really boosted my hop growth. It's not something that you would use all season, but it will definitely give your hops a good boost at the beginning of the growing season.
To give you a little back story on my hops that I planted last year. I got rhizomes from the Colonial Williamsburg nursery. I saw hops growing in the colonial garden and got to talking to the gardener about them. I asked if they ever sold dormant rhizomes (it was the middle of June). She said no, but they do like to share, and she dug them out of the ground right then and there for me.
I was worried that the rhizomes would not grow because they were dug up when they were fully active and very susceptible to transplant shock. I was very careful to give them the soil that they wanted, and in a few weeks they started coming up.
Then my friend suggested that I get this stuff called "Bumper Crop" made by Coast of Maine. It's what he describes as "Miracle Grow on Steroids." He once placed it on a aqua garden that was near a stump for a tree that had been cut down 5 years prior, the stump was drilled, then salted. The Bumper Crop caused the tree to start growing again.
I cannot tell you how magic this stuff is. My hops were growing inches a day before I started using it, then I threw on a bag and they started growing feet a day.
It's really easy to use, just spread a bag of the dirt over you growing area, and when it rains next all of the nutrients are absorbed by the soil and you get good growth. It's all organic and all natural, so unlike Miracle Grow it won't leave your plants vacant of nutrients after it's gone.
Check it out, I swear by it and so does the nursery I buy it from. They go through pallets of it every week.
