Growing Hops

[Frank&Rita]

The first year you plant hops it seems to take forever for them to come out of the ground!! Since I didn't know what they looked like I had to stop pulling weeds. Now the second year they come up first thing, the first year they have to get the roots started. I got a few hops the first year but the second year we got a little over a pound from 4 plants. A pound of hops is a LOT of hops!! We cut the vines down and hung them upstairs to dry then we picked the hops off, THOUSANDS of them!! (well hundreds anyways)