Recent content by GarfieldAve

Oh, the difference a month makes. The Centennials: The Cascades: Poor things are under siege by tomatoes, but they've got climbing on their side. Chinook: One solitary but determined and hearty bine - picture doesn't show it but it's topped the 10' T and turned a corner toward the garage...

Update shots - first up is the hands-down winner so far, the Centennial: The rhizome was by far the worst looking, but obviously that didn't translate to growth. The line in back has three fairly hearty vines going and I added the line in front because two more vines wanted somewhere to go -...

Haha, that's pretty much exactly what I did this morning. Once the shoots get far enough up I'll mulch around them and that should help. The rain isn't all bad, though - the Centennial that grabbed the vine worked up a solid couple inches just today. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Special thanks to Ted for saying that he sometimes just lays the bine on the support and it takes care of itself. I got myself way too worked up on what was clockwise on whatever plane or what that I was just stuck, so I did just that and the bine is now happily doing its thing. Also, now I have...

My first-year shoots are out and I've got a Centennial that's grabbed the twine, but the main issue I'm having is that the main rhizomes keep getting exposed after these gully-washers we've been getting. I've turned to mounding Miracle-Gro soilless mix on them until the shoots are high enough...

Pretty much joined HBT for this thread and information. Thanks for sticking with it and sharing what you're learning over time. Found this via Chop & Brew and combined with those videos and Paul's thread I feel well-prepared to care for my just-put-in-the-ground hops. I have a Centennial and...