With the hop shortage in full swing, I decided to take a stab at growing my own hops. I’m not alone. I have found a ton of posts of new backyard hop gardeners. My bought my hop rhizomes from Thyme Garden and they should be arriving any day now. One thing though. I do not have a trellis set up yet. After scouring my yard to find the perfect place, I decided on the side of my house.
I have read a lot about different designs and am going to take a stab at building one this weekend. I did not want to “just wing it”, so I laid it out on the computer. Below is what I will be building, unless I hear some objection to this design from someone more experienced than myself.
What do you think?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
A Hop Trellis Design For Growing Hops In The Back Yard
3 comments:
I am growing hops for the first time this year, too!
That looks like a great setup. I think that making multiple lines off one pole is a great idea. The only thing I'm wondering is how many different plants you'll have going.
I believe that each plant makes a few bines that will each need their own support. It looks like you might have one line each for four plants. However, I think your concept might still be adaptable to multiple lines per plant. Or maybe multiple bines can grow up one string?
I have been trying to find three spots in the yard, one for each of the three rhizomes I ordered, but I don't know if there are really three good spots in my yard. A multi-plant solution like yours just might be the trick.
If you haven't found it yet, there's a Yahoo Group for growing hops that seems pretty good.
I am growing 4 varieties, Centennial, Chinook, Cascade, and Nugget. I planned on running 2-3 bines of 1 plant, up one line. From what I read, this should be fine.
I'm looking for ideas too. I've got 4 Centennials, and might add 4 more to that. I've got a spot, but looking to do something not too crazy to scare the neighbors.
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