How to Plant Hops

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Hops are a long-growing plant, with good harvests coming 5 years in. Planting them correctly is essential to setting up a massive harvest for a lifetime, so learn how in today’s show. Connect With Beau Bromley: Beau Bromley is the Hops Technician at Sierra Nevada Brewery up in Chico, CA. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:16.0	Bob Romley is back on the show.
0:17.8	We're talking hops this week.
0:19.6	He's the hops technician at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company up in Chico, California.
0:25.1	One of my favorite breweries, so I'm really excited to have so many of this Sierra team
0:29.9	on the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:31.7	We're talking today about how to plant hops.
0:34.6	We've talked about varieties.
0:36.0	We've talked about climate and the plant itself, but Bob, I'm curious, obviously, the way
0:40.6	you're planting hops up there is going to be quite different because you have a lot
0:44.0	more space than the home gardener, so maybe you could start off with the way that you've
0:48.5	set it up up at the Chico facility.
0:51.9	Yeah, hey, Kevin.
0:53.9	Yeah, well, you know, how we have it set up, probably be a little different than a typical
0:59.9	home garden set up for a home brewery pick system, but yeah, but there are a lot of similarities
1:09.0	in that when it comes time to planting, you're most likely going to get your hops in
1:14.0	like a rhizome bundle already kind of cut to length, so that's how we get them to.
1:20.6	We get them in bundles and then plant them down the rows by hand, much like you would
1:25.8	do in your yard or in your home garden.
1:29.2	All right.
1:30.2	And then as far as trellising, I know the typical hop trellis, at least in my mind's eye
1:36.5	from the last time I was up at Sierra and actually saw it, it's pretty tall, right?
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