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Started by Jeff, July 13, 2016, 10:34:55 PM

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Jeff

What might be going on here? This is being erected not far from our house. I really don't know what the heck they are doing, but I did have a guess
You can't see it in the pictures, but they are stringing some sort of wire along the tops too. Thats what that vehicle with the scaffold is doing in the back. The 4x4s on top are randomly oriented. The trees look like some kind of willow, or swamp tree of some kind. Dont look to be at all rot resistant. It's a puzzler.


 
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 :P  Oh No, another one of Jeff's Diabolical Pig Roast Games??   :o  :D
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Hops?  I heard there is a shortage with all the micro-breweries that have been going into business.

Jeff

Nope, just something I discovered on a backroad near here.
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Jeff

Hops! that is what my guess was!
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Gary_C

I'd suspect they are preparing to put some kind of shade cloth on that area to protect some crop from too much sun. They do that with tobacco but usually earlier in the spring.
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starmac

Looks like what they do with hops, but didn't know they grew it there.
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coxy

hops we have a bunch of them here also

Chuck White

I agree, a HOPS field!
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thecfarm

I would guess on hops too. We have some just for the green. That stuff don't do much the first year or so. But really takes off once it gets going.We have 3 plants.
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Sheepkeeper

Hops yard. I was doing some research on growing hops recently (another one of those crazy hair-brained ideas I get once in a while) and that's what it looks like.
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Jeff

When Tammy and I first got married, we lived in a little old house not far from here. There was an old out house in the yard where I had my first encounter with hops. My brother-in-law made beer and he knew exactly what the vines with all the yellow flowers were that would totally engulf that old outhouse.  :)
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Czech_Made

Hops, IMHO.

But this is the propper way to do it:



I spent quite few weeks working them hops fields  ;D

Ox

A vote for hops.  Used to be the cash crop around these parts in the old days.  Ever hear of the Loomis gang?  They were stationed up the road about an hour from here in 9 Mile Swamp.  Their first source of income was from farming hops!  My wife is related to the Loomis crowd somehow.  I've also heard that hops are a cash cow at the moment and prices have skyrocketed because of a shortage.  If I was in better shape and not so crippled up I'd have a go at it!
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Onthesauk

Thousands of acres of hops in the Yakima Valley in central Washington.  Have been grown there for years.  And Chech_Made knows the correct way to grow them.
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Dave Shepard

If say hops, too. Were I used to work someone rented a couple acres and put in a hop hard. We cut s bunch of locust poles on site for it. It never got off the ground, and when the lease was up, they pulled the poles and ran.
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Corley5

Never seen a hops yard with cross arms on top of the poles :-\
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Must be three phase.
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21incher

Looks like a low budget hops farm going in. Around where I live they use tamarack for the poles. I have 3 hops vines and they all got wiped out by japanese beetles 2 days ago. About 10,000 beetles moved in and ate the leaves in 1 night. I had no idea they would eat the plants like that. :)
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thecfarm

I was weeding the herb beds and uncovered a bunch of copper colored bettles. I killed them all. Only have about 999,980 of those Japanese bettles to go.  ::) They will be bigger in just a few days. The hops I don't mind if they chew on it,I wished they would leave the honey suckle along. That grows 6 feet each year and the bettles chew it back 5½ feet.
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Ox

cfarm - you must be the first person I ever heard that wanted honeysuckle to grow.  If you don't mind my nose problem, what do you want them for?  I can see them making a decent hedge fence if they don't get out of hand.
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Skip

Honeysuckle smells good ! :)

SwampDonkey

Some people eat the fruit of one honeysuckle species at least. The haskap honeysuckle. The cedar waxwings get them before I do and I don't mind. :D

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Magicman

I want honeysuckle to grow.  Deer love it.
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Ox

There must be different honeysuckles.  The stuff I'm thinking of is a scrubby, wiry viney brushy thing that is invasive and I've never seen anything eat it.  Blooms with little white flowers that turn yellow I think.  No berries.  Eh, to each his own.  :)
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