If you're new to growing hops, or if you've had mixed success in the past, September planting might be just what you need to turn your hop-growing efforts into a fruitful harvest.

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 ...

Hop bines grow well along a natural organic rope, Robinson said. Some looking to enhance their backyard might want hops to grow along a trellis, but that move may produce inconsistent results.

Hops may look like buds, but they are actually small flowers that grow vertically on bines. A perennial plant, they thrive between the 50th and 40th parallels, but can grow as low as the 30th ...

Hops may look like buds, but they are actually small flowers that grow vertically on bines. A perennial plant, they thrive ...

Dietrich Gehring, owner of Indian Ladder Farms Cidery and Brewery, checks over the hops growing at Indian Ladder Farms on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Altamont, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union) ...

Philadelphia Brewing started making Harvest from the Hood in 2012 and, about three years later, employees began growing hops for the seasonal IPA on an 18-by-70-foot lot that sits a few feet from ...

Hops grow best when given a minimum of 16 hours of sunlight, which is available at latitudes of 35 degrees and above. Florida’s uppermost latitude reaches just 31 degrees, UF/IFAS said.

Growing hops is big business. In 2016, the Yakima Valley hop crop was valued at about $380 million. The crop has a far-reaching economic impact on the local economy—things like farming equipment, ...

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Hops may look like buds, but they are actually small flowers that grow vertically on bines. A perennial plant, they thrive between the 50th and 40th parallels, but can grow as low as the 30th ...

Hops are the key ingredient that turn beer into beer. If you want to be an expert, here's what you need to know. Hops have fueled the modern beer renaissance. After Prohibition all but destroyed ...