Grow your own....

[JammyBStard]

Anyone grow your own hops?

I'm thinking of starting some next spring. I'm in York, I dont know if the climate's perfect but it cant be that different to Kent.

Can you take cuttings? or do you have to get a root (rhizomes)?

[WishboneBrewery]

I'm in Keighley and I have a Fuggle Flowering well at the moment.
I also snapped a bit off it by accident so put some rooting powder on it and stuck it in a pot with Half a Coke bottle over it, its now out-growing my windowsill

[JammyBStard]

Fantastic, if it'll grow in Keighley, it'll grow in York. Do you think you could spare me a cutting before it all dies back in the autum?

[WishboneBrewery]

If you are mobile and can get either to here or Ripley near Harrogate you can have the plant thats outgrowing my windowsill, it might be a bit late in the season for starting a cutting off and hoping it would survive through to next year (just my opinion mind).
I've nowhere sensible to put the plant myself, and was considering letting a friend have it, would be better going to a brewer though

[JammyBStard]

that would be grat, I'd keep it inside untill spring.
I was planning a trip to see Paul (Barley Bottom) one day this week, Could I call in then? I take it your home in K in the evenings.

[WishboneBrewery]

will send pm