Record-breaking summer here, on a par with 1976 for dryness, sunshine and heat. In fact, a very dry year: got a new dog in Jan and have hardly had to walk him in the rain. Other crops have suffered though, pumpkins and sweetcorn were total failures this year: first year I've never managed to grown a pumpkin.
How did you go keeping water up to them? I had no end of trouble, I have the block next door to and grew Cascade for 3 years this was the final year 25.02 2015. They were just to thirsty I couldn't keep my garden watered and the hops.
Deeper roots!
Well that is why they are called rhizomes, the roots grow horizontally so can find a source of water. I checked out the water needs it is 9 litres per day for one plant! I don't know if it would be that much for heavily mulched hops. I am keen to grow them again, maybe EKG also something like Challenger. I did try to grow them hydroponically but that didn't work. There is one guy growing them here using Aquaponics and is very successful, he also uses his spent grains to produce Shiitake mushrooms.
9lts, that’s an eye opener.
I thought tomatoes were thirsty at 1 litre per day! Mind you tomatoes are mostly water.
I think pelleting them is difficult, but have heard that you can distill the oils off. No idea how to do that but my neighbour does have a still.
