The hubby brought home some hops rhizomes for the garden today. I think planting them like this, would make a lovely entryway to the rest of the garden.
As farmers consider growing hops for local breweries, N. State University is conducting research in Raleigh and Mills River to see if hop growing could become a viable specialty crop for North Carolina.
In total, pounds of dry hops were harvested off of the 12 plants. There were two storms this year with high wind gusts that broke some of the plants. This breakage was partially due to string.
The Hop Farm: 'Till St. James’s Day be done and gone, There may be hops there may be none’ This year has been incredibly dry yet again in the south east and the hops were showing signs of suffering.