If this good weather sticks around I'm planning on picking the hops on my 3 hop plants, all one year old, this Saturday.
If anyon'e interested in helping with the picking and taking a few home them let me know. There's not a huge harvest to share around in return for picking labour but I'm impressed with the yield they have made for their first year.
They're on an allotment in Fishponds and varieties are Northdown, Progress and Cobb's Golding. Some have browned a fair bit but the lupulin looks good.
Hop harvest
Re: Hop harvest
Gone straight into a 'session' IPA.
These hops smell amazing!
These hops smell amazing!
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Re: Hop harvest
I had a piffling 200g and I froze them go a beer that I will do soon.
Re: Hop harvest
I'll be checking and harvesting on my fleeting return to Bristol for the National.
Might have some spare...
Might have some spare...
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Re: Hop harvest
Gonna pick mine this week. They've been the best crop on the allotment this year.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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Same here pretty much.steve crawshaw wrote:They've been the best crop on the allotment this year.
Looks like you've been better at watering your's coming up to harvest than I have judging by the lack of browning on the cones. Think I might try and set up a drip irrigator from a water but for next year.