Week 6

Well it's been six weeks and this Saturday was time to train the hop bines. I setup the trellis last weekend, but the hop's weren't long enough to train yet, but this weekend they were. I decided to add a few more eye hooks so that I can run two bines on a single piece of string and give each bine a bit of breathing room.

Willamette (Organic)


Mt Hood (organic)


Cascade


I used Jute twine (so that I can compost it in the end) and some platic pegs that I bought at Home Depot. I ran the twine so that the middle of it hooked onto the peg closest to the plant (forming a V) and then ran each end into a different eye hook to provide some space.



I'm not 100% sure about what I'm doing but the hops seem to be growing and I'm of the mind that when you're doing something like this for a hobby it doesn't pay to worry too much about it.



All that being said I probably check on my hops at least twice a day.