Planting, growing, and harvesting hops is just as easy as growing tomatoes but far more versatile. In addition to flavoring your home-brewed beer, your crop can also serve as a decorative ...

Growing your own hops is as simple as acquiring a rhizome (a segment of hop plant root), planting it in the ground in early spring against something it can climb upon and making sure it gets ...

Growing your own hops is as simple as acquiring a rhizome (a segment of hop plant root), planting it in the ground in early spring against something it can climb upon and making sure it gets ...

If you love the bitter, citrusy or floral notes of an India pale ale, you can thank hops for that: The conelike flowers provide a bitter kick and balance the malty, sweet characteristics in any beer.

Growing hops gets you on the way to brewing your own beer. (Photo by Lynn Ketchum., courtesy of OSU Extension Service) ...

Once the growing season begins, hops need plenty of sunlight and water. If that sounds like a challenge, don't lose heart. Farmers all over the country manage it, even in the face of the British ...

If you’re excited to get growing, May brings lots of plant sales, walks and talks to Lancaster County. Find plant swaps, learn how to grow hops: 83 things for plant lovers to try in May | Home ...

My friend Laura Pesek, a garden designer, picked up on something I said to her in passing a year ago: I love beer.Yesterday she dropped off a cutting from a Cascade hops vine, with instructions on ...

Tips for growing hops. Select rhizomes from a “clean stock” program so you do not bring in diseases or viruses to your garden. Plant the rhizome in spring, no later than mid-May.

Most of the U.S. farms that grow hops, a key ingredient in beer, are in the state of Washington. And as climate change continues—with more heat waves like one that hit the Pacific Northwest last ...

"If we can look at plant population studies, or possibly supplemental lighting, fertility, manipulation, we may be able to close this gap and make hops a viable crop for Tennessee producers," said ...