Some ominous looking pots have gathered into the corner of our garden recently
They were eagerly awaiting the delivery of some hop rhizomes - one saaz, one cluster and one fuggles.
These are used to propagate hops - theoretically you just plant the rhizome in plenty of soil and let nature do its stuff. You can see by the new white shoots that it's keen to get on with it.
Because we don't own the property, and will probably be moving in the next year or so, I can't dig them into the ground so I'm using large containers. Each holds 2 1/2 bags of potting compost with some water retention granules mixed in, and because hops are a climbing vine that need to entrain their branches onto something I've also added in an 8' stake and some twine. I've positioned them at different places round the house to see which sun pattern works best.
It's supposedly too warm up here to grow hops well so it's a bit of an experiment to see what happens. I dashed out eagerly this morning, but nothing so far...
Stand by for regular hopdates!
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