Wild hops
How to take hop cuttings are the instructions I followed.
After 7 days there is no action on the cuttings, and everything looks quite shriveled up.
Buying a plant
https://essentiallyhops.co.uk/product/prima-donna-first-gold/
https://essentiallyhops.co.uk/growing-hops/
- Hop plants are a hardy perennial, best planted as a bare root during the dormant winter months.
- Hops like a well drained fertile soil and should be planted in open ground as soon as possible.
- Make sure the hole is deep and the crown well covered.
- Mark the spot with a screw peg.
- Install your support (trellis, coir string) for the plant to climb up before the spring.
- Small shoots should appear when the weather warms (April)
- Train the shoots clockwise during May & June.
- Harvest at the end of August.
I hope this spot will work. Partially shaded. 19th April 2021. The frosts have just stopped.
Looking back on these instructions I don’t think my hole was deep enough. Was probably about 30cm.
2021 harvest
17th sept harvested
70g with bag and hops
dried was probably 25g
2022 harvest
got 20g of dried hops
2023 harvest
26th September - a bit late as they were getting brown. Also not as much sun as previous years as garden getting overgrown.
2024 harvest
3rd of September. Been a strange year (quite wet and not massive periods of sunshine. Not above 30 either). But a big harvest with hops going really high.
354g wet weight of the hops. Wow. That is 5x the amount of year 1. Will dry them, then use fairly soon for a brew.
