More Hop Progress (plus they're hard to kill!)

Things have progressed and here it is a week later. We had a heavy frost and that caused a set back for one of the plants.


Here are the Fuggles. They've done well this week with no apparent damage from the frost. I am starting to wind them around the strings. Once they get started they will twist around the strings themselves.

Below are the Kent Goldings. They are coming up all over the place. I did some digging and it looks like they grew laterally before they broke the ground surface. I'll have to come up with something to get the growing towards the trellis.

This is the Nugget. Notice how the tips of the shoots are pointing towards the sun. I'll probably start winding them around the strings this week. They needs a few more inches of growth first.

Unfortunately the Cascade got taken out by the frost. You can see the wilted brown shoot between the bricks. I dug this one up and found a new shoot so I'm pretty sure it will come around.

The Magnum is coming along fine. I didn't get a good picture so I decided to skip it this week. I also have another Cascade that I'm not sure about. I dug around it and it looks like it might be sending something up this week.


Here's what I mean about hops being hard to kill...This picture is some of the Fuggles. I dug this plant on April 6th (see my previous blog post). This little shoot is growing about 6 feet from where the original plant was.

Below is some of the Kent Goldings. It's coming up all over underneath the deck, despit my efforts to pull it all up and move it. I'll let both of these grow and cover part of the deck.