did you brew your own beer yet?
I just harvested the first year of hops a few days ago. Most of them also got eaten by grasshoppers. nearly all of them had a large portion of the hop eaten. others were not worth harvesting because of some unknown little clear wormy things covering them by the thousands. Others were tossed because tiny spiders thought they were a great place to lay eggs, so they were webbed with egg sacs.
Ok, to go on, when I started the hops portion of the garden, I did my research, as I normally do with everything, I went overboard. I read everything written about hops and the soil and tending that was written all the way back to the 1800's. I'm obsessive compulsive that way in trying to get shit done right. I like to do it right the first time. So I got the soils and mounds done right, in the right location with the right soil, with the right fertilizer makeup, the works and I'll tell you, these hops smell like shit. I would rather piss in my beer than put the hops I harvested in my beer.
total failure, I suck or it was the perfect storm this year or something. The one thing I do know is that I would have spent way less to just order all the shit I wanted or buy it locally.
