Interesting find

[ChshreCat]

So I was walking past one of the buildings at work today and on a whim I decided to see how they were landscaping the other side. These look familiar?

 

[Germelli1]

So I was walking past one of the buildings at work today and on a whim I decided to see how they were landscaping the other side. These look familiar?

Awesome! Could you tell if they are ornamental varieties? With that much care to trim and leave one vine per line I doubt they are!

 

[ChshreCat]

Funny you should ask...

 

[Germelli1]

Funny you should ask...

Even more awesome! Any idea who would have pitched that idea? Or even better, are they fair game

 

[ChshreCat]

Been looking out for the head groundskeeper to ask him about them. I can't imagine someone planting them like that if someone wasn't planning on harvesting when the time came, but I just might get lucky.

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

That is a lot of bines! Even if the groundskeeper plans to harvest them, he is likely to be overwhelmed with hops in 2-3 years. Sounds like a good person to know...

 

[ChshreCat]

Update:

Finally got to talk to the gardener/head groundskeeper here. He said that he planted them because they're hardy and look nice and that was it. He had no plants to harvest, but said that if someone wanted to take the bines down at the end of the season so he didn't have to, he wouldn't mind that at all.

 

[Zeal]

I wish I could stumble upon something like this! Have a good harvest.

 

[jamboparty]

Holy crap, good find!!



Way to stumble into something awesome... now to make sure no one else comes to start picking them clean before you can.

 

[frydogbrews]

what's his idea of the "end of the season" though? hopefully you can take them, ar at least some of them, before they are too old.

 

[frydogbrews]

don't forget to ask if you can split some tubers up in few years also. make a deal where you dig and split, then keep half of what you split and re-plant the other half for him to keep the bed looking organized. groundskeepers love "neat and organized"

 

[Pappers_]

what's his idea of the "end of the season" though? hopefully you can take them, ar at least some of them, before they are too old.

If he wants them left up for ornamentation beyond the time the cones are ripe, you can always take a ladder and pick them without cutting down the bines.

 

[ChshreCat]

Yeah, I may have to do that.

Getting the bines down is going to be another issue. They're growing on steel cable that's permenantly attached to the building. I'll have to unwind each of the little buggers by hand.

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

Looks like an easy spot for a ladder. They keep their vegetation all season, and have to dispose of them in the fall, and you keeps the cones...What's not to like!