I noticed today that my last remaining hop has been killed. I planted two back in March, to boldly go on a three year mission to get some home grown hops for our beer. But a pair of plonkers have stuffed that ambition after only six months.
The first hop fell to a numptie that managed to strim it clearing a path. That was annoying, but I can understand, accidents happen.
The demise of the second looks like deliberate though - a compost heap has been build where it once grew. In the words of an ex-colleague it buggers belief that a plant, the piece of string it's growing on, and the peg the string is attached to can all be removed accidentally. As soon as I can get a baying mob together I'll be tracking down the perpetrator and explaining to him the error of his ways.
Where once two hop grew up string tied to the guttering now there is only blank wall and weeds.
What very little I know about hops suggests yours may still try to grow back next year from the rootstock, particularly if someone's put compost on one of them: watch out around April 2012 for the green shoots of recovery …
ReplyDeleteGood point, they may be reanimated yet.
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