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General Discussions => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Padraic on December 28, 2012, 11:04:04 AM

Title: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: Padraic on December 28, 2012, 11:04:04 AM
It is nearly time to start planning your hop planting! Some of the other guys here will know alot more about it than me but I came across a couple of links to rhizomes sellers in the UK:

http://www.willingham-nurseries.co.uk/hop3.html

http://www.essentiallyhops.co.uk/acatalog/Hop_Plants.html

http://www.aplus-hops.co.uk/

Does anyone have rhizomes to share?

When is it time to plant the rhizomes?

I know that some of you using hop cuttings instead of rhizomes and that these do not need to be done until the first shoots come up, when is that?
Title: Re: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2012, 02:05:39 AM
Good man. I've been meaning to ask the same questions.
Wouldn't mind growing (at least some of) my own hops.
One question to add though, which hops grow best/worst here?
Title: Re: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: Rossa on December 29, 2012, 11:57:36 AM
I will have lots to share.
fuggles
first gold
wgv

I'll be lifting them within a month. Will happily take a nice bottle of beer in exchange!
Title: Re: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: Danny(00833827) on June 20, 2013, 11:04:09 AM
Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I am in the middle of fixing up my garden - whole house needed renovation and 3 years later its only now that i am getting the garden done - so was thinking i could keep an area for some hops to grow - So at this stage of the year have i missed the boat for getting something in the ground?

thanks
Title: Re: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: LordEoin on June 20, 2013, 12:14:31 PM
You could get them in the ground alright and let them get established, but it might be too late for you to get anything from them this year.
Go for it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Title: Re: Hop Rhizomes
Post by: Danny(00833827) on June 20, 2013, 01:01:26 PM
yeah sure worth a punt, are all the on-line places to order much of a muchness in this regard?