Recent content by Ramps

Great Idea Sam I'm growing a bit of "Red Earth" (a Western Australian variety) which is doing really well I know everything can't be accounted for in a survey like this but another column could be "didn't emerge" or a complete disaster like my EKG last year I am dropping a few of my varieties...

Oh yeah prob been tried before but not that I have heard does a great sous-vide with pork rashes too ... should post that in the cooking forum! 24 hrs @ 57.25 degrees +/- 0.25 degrees ... does a great job oops... just had a quick peek ... looks like I'm well behind the eight ball like normal...

OK OK OK After another 1/2 dozen brews with now changes/updates etc, I finally had confess to myself that it was completed and no longer a prototype susceptible to brewly changes so I have to give it a clean up and varnish. Also add to that, that there will be a bunch of family wondering thru my...

Did the most sinful thing Left my fuggle too late ... browning off on the bine! Sorry shouldn't tell people of this but... with 750g Cascade DRY plenty enough Red Earth, a bit of Chinook and Hallertau and some Fuggles already I feel I already more than I can use in a year Next year .. hop...

Wow That's keen I spose I have the right weather at this time if the year a few days on a flyscreen door on the mezanine in the shed (where my spare timber is) and they're dry as! interesting ... harvesting in Canberra just beginning to flower in Tas some if my Fuggles will be ready to harvest...

Yeah Hoppy designed the veranda for the purpose :D

Last year each variety ripened at different times but all that variety ripened together I've noticed something a little different this year there seems to be not only different levels of maturity within a variety, but different rates of maturity on the same bine! Mostly Fuggles and cascade with...

Fuggles is competing with the Cascade this year (at about 1.5m) .. all others thinking of getting off the ground (tetnang was apathetic last year might be a no show this year)

Hey Pratty there are plenty of ground dwellers that attack the bottom leaves, red legged earth mites and lucerne flea attack mine but they rare get above the bottom 20 -30 cm, normally the hops will out compete and nothing to worry about ... if you see them spreading upwards you might have to...

Hey Grant, have you tried the tip. scrap metal yard or salvage yard for some fencing. Some of the gal pipe that is used for the chain-mesh fence works ok. and if you're kitted up with a welder you can buy a couple of couplings to join them if they're not long enough (or you want to run a...

could well be that they don't actually need the height but the length. mine did very little flowering in the first 1.5-1.8m of bine, might still be the same if running horzontal but I must admit that where I've seen them running "wild" ie 30+ yrs old an uncared for I saw very very few flowers on...

Looking good sixDB, very neat One question, is roof height (where you have the top of the lines attached the typical 2.7-3m? If so don't be disheartened if they yield a bit low, typically I've found very few flowers on the lower 1.5-1.8m of bine If you also find this, next year you might be...

I built this structure a few years back to hold the hops The good thing is that SWIMBO has the impression that I built it for HER :) works really well and seems to with stand the winds On a serious note, I noticed last year (first year of growing hops) was that there was very little to no...

Thanks Pirate, works well, thought it would be a good way to evenly distribute the flow/ pressure across the entire bottom of the pot and if I wanted to later either knock out the bottom and lower the falsie to give myself some more room for grain or even just knock the bottom out of a 3rd pot...

I prob should have dressed it up for the occasion if it's going to be reported ... maroon or burgundy face on the controller and strewth I prob should have at least polished it!