What are you doing with homebrew today?
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Dropping new lines for the bines ;-)
I should've put down new plastic, the current lining is pretty well baked and coming apart in places. Honestly though, the grass just creeps over top of the plastic and grows anyway :-(
The hops like to climb 'jute' rope better than anything else I can find and it's good for about a season.
This season I have lost about 4 rhizomes. One of which is seemingly in a 'dead' spot, I'm betting I've lost half a dozen there, so this year if anything grows, it better be great or it's getting covered over. In 5 years, I've only had one rhizome live more than 1 season and it has never climbed more than 6'. It's literally 6 feet from the strongest bine I have that is already at 6' up at the Ides of March.
I transplanted 3 more last year, so in reality I'm only down 1. I did lose one of those, but I had an extra rhizome in a pot that I transplanted.
Fixed the drip irrigation, I had a connector piece the feeder line had popped off of. used the right one this time, heated and reseated so hopefully that holds.
It looks like I lost one Cashmere rhizome, or it's just turtling and if it's this late, it's probably a goner. It will be interesting to see if the early start for them helps get them established before the plant killing heat sets in.
The drip irrigation gets great results but unfortunately I haven't found an answer for creeping grass. The stuff is thick and fed a steady diet of sun and water, so now all of my rhizomes are embedded in grass roots. It doesn't seem to hurt the hops, but I'd really love to find a way to - no pun intended- root out the competition.
I should've put down new plastic, the current lining is pretty well baked and coming apart in places. Honestly though, the grass just creeps over top of the plastic and grows anyway :-(
The hops like to climb 'jute' rope better than anything else I can find and it's good for about a season.
This season I have lost about 4 rhizomes. One of which is seemingly in a 'dead' spot, I'm betting I've lost half a dozen there, so this year if anything grows, it better be great or it's getting covered over. In 5 years, I've only had one rhizome live more than 1 season and it has never climbed more than 6'. It's literally 6 feet from the strongest bine I have that is already at 6' up at the Ides of March.
I transplanted 3 more last year, so in reality I'm only down 1. I did lose one of those, but I had an extra rhizome in a pot that I transplanted.
Fixed the drip irrigation, I had a connector piece the feeder line had popped off of. used the right one this time, heated and reseated so hopefully that holds.
It looks like I lost one Cashmere rhizome, or it's just turtling and if it's this late, it's probably a goner. It will be interesting to see if the early start for them helps get them established before the plant killing heat sets in.
The drip irrigation gets great results but unfortunately I haven't found an answer for creeping grass. The stuff is thick and fed a steady diet of sun and water, so now all of my rhizomes are embedded in grass roots. It doesn't seem to hurt the hops, but I'd really love to find a way to - no pun intended- root out the competition.
