Started my hop garden!

[The_Bishop]

I have two cascade, two centennial and one chinook. This Cascade is ahead of the class, and ready to climb already. First year in the planters, in the fall I'll build a raised bed at the base of the hill.

 

[WayFrae]

Nice! I like the idea of using the hill as a trellis!

 

[BigRock947]

Way cool!!! +1 on the hill idea....I understand your excitement as my wife and I started a hop garden this year too.

 

[The_Bishop]

That hill face gets a great amount of sun, and saved me having to dream up a way of getting 20' high trellises for the hops to climb.

 

[The_Bishop]

Well, a not so good update. Grubs.

I hate Grubs.

Didn't kn ow I had them until I noticed the chinook stalled out, and so did one of my cascade. When I started poking around to see what was going on, I found grubs. They ate so much of the chinook roots that it killed the chinook off. One of my cascade (about a foot long, too) was also stalled out. when I dug into that pot, more grubs. The cascade only has about 3 inches of root left. It's transplanted into a pot of fresh, clean potting soil, but it's kind of wilted.

 

[WayFrae]

Aww man, that is disappointing.

 

[The_Bishop]

Yeah, I'm just happy that my one remaining cascade is doing well, and so are the two centennial. If the one cascade doesn't make it, I'll be replacing it with a hop plant, not a rhizome, from High Hops Brewery.