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Hop Trellis

Hops Trellis

Even if you're not a home brewer dealing with the hops shortage, hop plants are great to have in your garden. The trick is that they like to grow vertically up twine, so you have to rig a trellis. You can make one using scraps of soaker hose and antenna wire while taking advantage of tree trunks already in your garden.



Hops Trellis
The soaker hose is used to protect the bark (in this case of a Douglas-fir tree) from the wire. Cut the hose just long enough to go around the trunk at the height you want (higher is better) and thread a length of wire through the hose. Before tying the wire to the tree, notch the hose in each place where the twine will come up to the top of the trellis. Put s-hooks onto the wire through the notches in the hose. Set eye-hole or hooked stakes in the ground away from the base of the tree trunk and attach the twine with s-hooks through the stakes as well. The s-hooks simplify replacing the twine each season when the plant dies back.

Hops Trellis
String twine from stake to wire and back again to form the trellis. The vines readily grow up the twine and soon provide a vivid green contrast to the dark brown bark.

Hops Trellis
For a variant project, you could mount eyebolts to the side of a building to create a similar trellis. But then what would you do with your leftover soaker hose?

Thanks to my dad for taking the lush "after" pictures and letting me share his project!

Contributed by Lenore on Monday, June 09 2008 @ 10:39 PM PDT, in EMSL Projects
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From: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11 2008 @ 01:05 AM PDT
Woot! I also started growing my own hops this year in Tucson. It's slow going so far and doesn't look nearly as pretty as this, but the plants look a bit more established!
-bswift5528 (screwed up login)
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From: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11 2008 @ 05:59 AM PDT
That looks a lot better than the arrangement we have to help shade the backyard (hope to have more shade later this summer).
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From: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 11 2008 @ 12:50 PM PDT
Have all the pix gone private?

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