Ideas needed
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- Hollow Legs
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Ideas needed
OK lads & lassies, I need some ideas. I want to replant my Goldings and Perle hops in the winter onto my allotment from home. What should I use to support them and how high? It can at times be a little windy if that's any help but I can find a bit of a sheltered spot.
Re: Ideas needed
Don't know about Perle but I had Goldings and Challenger on my allotment that grew way off the top of a 4m high frame.
I'd say you might need 5 to 6m vertically. A friend of mine in the US tried training hops along horizontal twines but it didn't work.
I built a frame out of wood supported by two A frames. I put string between the two for the hops to grow up. It was pretty solid and worked well for a few years despite being too small.
I'd say you might need 5 to 6m vertically. A friend of mine in the US tried training hops along horizontal twines but it didn't work.
I built a frame out of wood supported by two A frames. I put string between the two for the hops to grow up. It was pretty solid and worked well for a few years despite being too small.
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Re: Ideas needed
I grew hops for over 10 years and trained them to grow along an unused clothesline in my former backyard.
I probably didn't get as large a harvest as I would have gotten using a traditional set up, but it worked fairly well.
I probably didn't get as large a harvest as I would have gotten using a traditional set up, but it worked fairly well.
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- Meatymc
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Re: Ideas needed
Just a thought - if you had 2 parellel posts with the string zig-zagged across them you could increase the 'growing length' of the bine whilst still basically going upwards but without the need for 5+ metre posts.
I grow up and along fencing and also a single storey extension. Main problem I have is wind damage slapping the bine against something solid - just come back from jollies to find 'Hector' has reeked havoc and I've lost/damaged a lot of lead bines. Going to try and encourage the 1st offshoot to take over (removing the twin on the other side). Worked to a degree on a Cascade last year although I'm sure it impacts on overall harvest - as, I suspect, does training them to go horizontally as I do in any case.
I grow up and along fencing and also a single storey extension. Main problem I have is wind damage slapping the bine against something solid - just come back from jollies to find 'Hector' has reeked havoc and I've lost/damaged a lot of lead bines. Going to try and encourage the 1st offshoot to take over (removing the twin on the other side). Worked to a degree on a Cascade last year although I'm sure it impacts on overall harvest - as, I suspect, does training them to go horizontally as I do in any case.
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Re: Ideas needed
Just a quick add-on to my previous post - 2 x 3m posts set 1m apart and running string/rope/wire diagonally at 50cm spacing gives you 6 metres of 'climb'. Obviously 2 x 2m posts gives you 4m climb etc etc
Add a 3rd post and you could have 2 varieties growing side-by-side which might look quite good as a garden feature.
I have to constantly train the bines when running horizontally but the Cascade growing up the angle of our extension gable end is quite happy to cope itself so can't see why this wouldn't work. Going to try it myself next year
Add a 3rd post and you could have 2 varieties growing side-by-side which might look quite good as a garden feature.
I have to constantly train the bines when running horizontally but the Cascade growing up the angle of our extension gable end is quite happy to cope itself so can't see why this wouldn't work. Going to try it myself next year