billvelek
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I recently posted in a number of different brewing forums trying to find out whether growing hops at home is worthwhile. I'm sorry that I was a bit late in responding to many posts, and some I just never got around to at all. That might have seemed rude and unappreciative on my part, so I want to explain that I have had many things to deal with lately, including my wife having surgery to remove a tumor and part of her thyroid, so she has been at home recouperating. We just received the lab report on the biopsy late last week, and THANK GOD it was benign. Now I'll be able to pay more attention to my posts, and to brewing beer and making wine; right now I'm thawing out a 5-gallon bucket of frozen juice, and I'm going to take an inventory of my beer supplies later. At this time, I want to thank all of our brewing friends for their prayers and supportive emails.
Anyway, from the various replies that I've received, I've determined that hops can, indeed, grow in Arkansas, but that I shouldn't put them in my garden, and I need to keep them away from my tomatoes due to wilt. The majority of people reported that hops are easy to grow and make a BIG difference in the quality of homebrew. I've picked a nice spot in my yard that should work, am getting ready to order my rhizomes, and am planning a trellis of sorts. That is what I am writing about now -- to see what folks think of this idea. Instead of using a pulley which could jam from the bines, my thoughts are of using a removable lock-pin at the base of each pole, to be able to just swivel the pole down to a horizontal position. Until I drop it down to harvest the hops cones, I will also use cable and stakes for guidelines to help support it against the wind. Does anyone think that will work? Thanks for any advice.
Beautiful day today; just finished tilling up the spot I've picked for my hops, and I've just cracked open a bottle of homebrew.
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
Cheers, Bill Velek
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Anyway, from the various replies that I've received, I've determined that hops can, indeed, grow in Arkansas, but that I shouldn't put them in my garden, and I need to keep them away from my tomatoes due to wilt. The majority of people reported that hops are easy to grow and make a BIG difference in the quality of homebrew. I've picked a nice spot in my yard that should work, am getting ready to order my rhizomes, and am planning a trellis of sorts. That is what I am writing about now -- to see what folks think of this idea. Instead of using a pulley which could jam from the bines, my thoughts are of using a removable lock-pin at the base of each pole, to be able to just swivel the pole down to a horizontal position. Until I drop it down to harvest the hops cones, I will also use cable and stakes for guidelines to help support it against the wind. Does anyone think that will work? Thanks for any advice.
Beautiful day today; just finished tilling up the spot I've picked for my hops, and I've just cracked open a bottle of homebrew.
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!Cheers, Bill Velek
Join "HomeBrewers" international grid-computing team and help mankind by donating spare computer power for medical research such as cancer; we're in the top 10% and passed the MillerTime team: http://tinyurl.com/b7ofs The life your computer can help save just might be of someone you love.
