Hop relocation

Twine is what I use to have the hops grow on. Couple 3 poles 1 cable across the top then twine from the ground up. Would your neighbors bitch at that?

@SFACRKnight now I see how you do it. That's a lot of fertilizer.
Oh yeah we call them beefers back east

 

Well, if you're gonna do something you may as well do it right. A lot of guys grow hops pretty casually, like a set it and forget it mentality. I push pretty hard to get a large harvest each year. Now that I have a vacuum packer I look to double the size of my hop yard from 4 to 8 crowns.

 

Nice, I push with manure and conventional fertilizer, also mulch.
Possibly I'll get a vacation sealer this fall.

 

Gotta keep those vacations fresh!

 

GOOD ONE! Double 'likes' for it.

 

Not sure what growing zone you are in your part of Maine, but keep in mind that in a planter, the rhizomes won't be as protected from winter temperatures as if they were in the ground.

For this reason to not piss off my neighbors, I made my towers in two pieces so I can take down the top section in the winter.

The bottom section is 4x4 post in the ground with a concrete footer, but the top section is 2x4 that I bolt onto the bottom section. I also extended the growing length by stringing the rope on an angle from a 2nd set of short posts.

Pictures from a previous year with all the hop growth, but you can get the idea:

 

I loop the ropes through the top piece before I attach it to the bottom pole. But it still does require standing on a stepladder to lift it up and bolt it on.