Planting hops in the garden: methods of growing hops, care features, hop varieties

planting hops in the open field is a simple process and has a number of features. How to properly grow one of the most famous seed hops plants in your summer cottage? Hops do an excellent decorative function, for example, they can cover up an old barn or decorate a fence or veranda. For this, a strong vine with leaves and small cones that have a great appearance is perfect. How to plant correctly, what simple care rules need to be followed, what varieties are the most popular, what diseases and parasites can harm the plant? We will analyze all this in the article.

Content:

• Briefly about hops
• How do you breed hops?
• Simple hop care rules
• Choosing the perfect place in a country or suburban area for hops
• Hop varieties

Planting hops: features and description of the plant

The hop plant comes from the Hemp family. Hops are a powerful vine that has the ability to grow rapidly. Only after thirty days, its height can reach from six to eight meters. It is interesting that it wraps around an object or building strictly clockwise.

The plant has an empty stem with four sides, and there are thorns bent to one side on it. It is they who help the plant to keep strictly vertical rocks and buildings.

A variety of leaves are located throughout the plant. Three-bladed below, solid above. The leaves have an ideal decorative appearance, so the widespread use of hops can be seen in landscape design.

On the top layer of the earth is an elongated hop root. It has the ability to grow rapidly in soil and also sprouts.

The plant is dioecious, therefore plants of both sexes are required for the ovary.
The hop with the bud on which the buds grow comes in from twenty to fifty small female flowers. Below the bumps have glands that also produce lupulin. These inflorescences are used for the preparation of beer and some medicines.

Hops with an inflorescence, on which grow greenish "panicles", has up to thirty male flowers. In male flowers, the amount of lupulin is much less than in female flowers.

The flowering process of the plant usually occurs in July, by the end of summer the fruits ripen - small nuts.
Hops have been growing for thirty years.

Think carefully before planting hops in your summer cottage or suburban area. It is very difficult to interrupt the growth of vines, hops have a high level of resistance to various factors, and also grows rapidly. It is recommended to place a metal layer around the roots in the soil.

How to propagate a hop plant? Planting hops.

There are two ways to help grow a plant in a suburban or summer cottage:

Planting hops with seeds.

The seed method is not as popular as the vegetative method. Summer residents and gardeners use it in the case of obtaining a new variety. The method does not differ much from simple cultivation using seeds, but there are still differences:

• Put the soil with fertilizers in the container for the plant.
• Regular and abundant watering of the land.
• Using a knife, we make holes in the soil and place the seeds there.
• The plant itself requires regular and abundant watering.
• Do not leave the plant in direct sunlight. \
• Transplant the hops to a new and permanent area.

Seedlings of hops for planting. Vegetatively.

This is the more common and simpler way. From March to May, the root is shared with the seedlings, then they are planted in pre-prepared planting holes.

This method allows you to plant the plant using branches, at the moment when you have selected a branch and it leans towards the soil, pin it and cover it with soil. After some time, you can move the vine to a new place.

Planting hops outdoors: choosing the perfect spot

Since direct sunlight severely injures the plant and makes it more vulnerable to various diseases and parasites, it is recommended to plant hops in an area with partial shade. You should choose loamy soil for planting vines. Sandy soils are not advised as they inhibit hop growth.

Liana needs to grab onto something as it grows, so make a support for it. You should not change the position of the hops for growth, since the natural growth position is vertical, with the horizontal one - the growth process is reduced.

Hops create shade with their leaves, so you should think again about where to plant them on the site.

In August, yellow leaves form on the hops and crumble, but only on the half of the plant, which is near the ground. Experienced landscape designers recommend covering this with other shrubs.

Hop planting: hop care

Hops can be called an unpretentious plant. However, no one canceled the simple but important rules for caring for the plant. To get a great hop appearance you need to:

• Regular and abundant watering, as hops are moisture-loving plants.
• Top dressing several times a season.
• Adjusting the vines in the desired direction of growth.
• Timely pruning of stems.
• Timely removal of dead plant parts.

Experienced gardeners and summer residents recommend using gloves when working with hop vines, as they have thorns.

Unfortunately, aphids and various fungal diseases often attack hops. Means to combat them can be purchased at a specialized store.

Hop varieties

At the moment, it is known about a hundred varieties of hops, but their number is increasing at a cosmic speed. Most of these varieties are used as ornamental plants for suburban or suburban areas. The rest are used to make some medicines and beer.

The most famous and favorite varieties of gardeners:

Hops "ordinary".

Found almost everywhere. Has the ability to grow rapidly. Liana has a large number of bumps with a specific smell. It is used in pharmaceuticals.

Hops "brewer".

Liana has a small number of elongated bumps with a specific smell. High level of disease resistance and resistance to parasites. It is used to make beer and some medicinal products.

Hops "triumph".

Liana has round, medium-sized cones with a pleasant scent. Hops are often exposed to spider mites. Used for making beer and some medicines.

Hops "Aureus".

It is used as an ornamental plant in suburban and suburban areas. The leaves are yellow.

Hops "Prima Donna".

Liana has very large bumps. It is used as an ornamental plant for a summer cottage or suburban area.

Hops "Japanese".

Liana has no bumps. It grows for one year, is used as an ornamental plant in a suburban or suburban area.
It is worth thinking carefully about whether to plant a plant or not several times. In addition to its excellent appearance and beneficial properties, it can cause inconvenience to other plants.