"My partner's childhood home had a collection of beer barrels, each at a different stage of the brewing process, with one always ready to taste. When we moved out of our tiny flat and into a house, a brewing kit arrived in the post as a housewarming gift from his parents, soon followed by a small hop plant from an old friend, which now takes up more room than anything else in the veg patch."
"While our plant was grown by a professional, you can grow your own hop from rhizome cuttings taken from a healthy parent plant in spring. Having cleared a section of soil around the plant's crown, use a clean, sharp knife to remove a 15cm section of the rhizome. If you're not able to plant this cutting in its final position fairly swiftly, wrap it in damp kitchen paper and store somewhere cool, or pot up into a compost-filled container."
A brewing kit and a small hop plant arrived as housewarming gifts, and the hop now dominates the veg patch. Hops are a perennial that sends up bines each spring, producing hop flowers or cones that are ready to pick around now. Hops can be propagated from rhizome cuttings taken in spring by removing a 15cm section of rhizome with a clean, sharp knife, then planting immediately, wrapping damp for short storage, or potting into compost. Hops can also be propagated from stem cuttings by stripping lower leaves and rooting in gritty potting compost. Plants often sprawl, grasping trellis or crawling along the ground.
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