this is so detailed and informative. You're very good at explaining things - and at making people stay with your happy voice and joyful humour! I love your channel.
Holy cow I had no idea. Thank you for sharing this! I had been using the dried hop flowers in a night time tea consisting of ground licorice root, spearmint leaves, st. johns wort, chamomile, lavender (all dried) with a handful of hops. Steep for 15 minutes and enjoy. The sweetness of the licorice root + hoppiness = joy! Bonus it's a sedative so you're ready to sleep! But I was wrangling those shoots all spring and had NO idea they could be eaten! Now I am more excited than ever for next year!
Just by accident, I stumbled on this and your pruning bull vines video . I've got 2nd year hops and I was concerned why the early spring vines were so fragile. Thankfully you showed that they are hollow and should be cut away but that they are also edible. Great, thorough explanations of how to cook and how to prune , in other video. Many thanks for sharing your hops wisdom.
Thank you for all the great info. My wife and I fight over the asparagus at dinner and this will help convince her that growing hops will benefit the both of us!
This is an excellent channel! I used to see hops growing I my home state (CT) and thought they were an immature state of a type of pine tree, and wondered what they were. Nice to know! They grow here in VA too.
I enjoyed leaning I have a whole new crop I didn't know I even had last Spring! BONUS! I am looking forward to it this next Spring. I have Cascades, 5 of them, all ready to divide. I also very much enjoyed your personality - bet you are fun to hang out in the garden with! Smiles!
I am growing hops for the first time ever. (I got some rhizomes from a gardener friend). I hope to grow them as shade cover for the summer and never considered eating them until today. Thanks for the lesson on the two types of shoots to eat.
That's great. Hops are such interesting plants -- and such monsters once they get established. You will have plenty of shoots to eat and rhizomes to give away. I've never understood why they are so expensive to buy, because they will run and start new plants so easily. I'll look forward to seeing how your hops grow this season.
Thank you haphazard Homestead I learned a lot from watching your videos especially Wild Greens. I hope in the future I can Harvest these for myself and learn to consume these edible plants. Keep up the good work and keep doing more videos , I still want to learn more from you and from others as well again thank you.
I"m glad my videos have been helpful to you, Nancy Tsung. The outdoors can really be our own personal shopping center. Hop shoots are really tasty and hop plants are easy to grow in the right conditions.
Nice harvesting of your hop shoots for those pickles! I made 4 jars this week myself. I'm excited to hear how you like yours, once they've aged for a bit. Happy hop growing!
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Thanks for your appreciation. Hops are worth growing. They are such enthusiastic plants! If you ever try eating the hop shoots, I'd enjoy hearing your taste review!
Well this spring is going to be an adventure. I see hops growing like weeds along the riverbank and they were just weeds to me. This is the first time I've heard of that I can eat the shoots and I'm looking forward to it. Have you tried eating the flower buds while they are young?
Hi ya Hap! This sounds like an interesting plant, and I definitely love the different ways on how u showed to eat them, and hearing u eat them, talk about getting hungry here!!! I read where u say they can be frozen, have u ever dehydrated them??? R the cones not edible??? I knew this plant to be for making beer, did not know it was food till now, and that’s wonderful!!! U replied to one viewer about the rhizomes being expensive, that’s sad, I wouldn’t want to pay high dollar if I didn’t like them. Do u know if the sell individual rhizomes??? Thank u
Awesome video and just in time; my second year Chinook is sprouting like crazy. Also, in brewing bitterness is softened by adding sugar (malt). I imagine adding just a bit of sugar might make shoots palatable for people who don’t like the bitterness. FYI hops are bines, not vines (vines use tendrils).
I hope you do get to enjoy some of your Chinook sprouts. If you try them, I'm interested in how you like them. That's an interesting idea with using sugar to mellow out the bitterness for folks. That is a standard for wild greens, like wilted lettuce or dandelion greens. Vines, bines, lol. You are absolutely correct, of course. I did explain it in my video on harvesting and processing hops, at least. There are so many interesting things about hops. Enjoy your hop bines! :D
Hop shoots are a traditional dish they eat in venetia Region in Italy. The call it bruscandoli. If you google bruscandoli, you will find a lot of recipes. A typical dish is Risotto, and in have to say, this is my favorite Risotto so far. I also make an asian style Version with noodles in the wok. There are so many ways too Cook it. Tanks for the Video, greetings from Austria.
I have in the past, but don't have anything going right now. There are some interesting brews to make, especially with some wild plants, too, like spruce trees. Thanks for the suggestion!
My taste tests are sincere, that's for sure. So great that you are growing hops. They are so interesting. They are so enthusiastic once they get established. And no matter what, we get to start over every year, since they die back to the ground at the end of the season. You are in for some hoppyness! ; )
Hey thanks for the videos and knowledge. I need help help as I am farmer from india who want to grow hop shoots. Can you pls help me with this. Where I can get best hop shoots. I want more knowledge to grow it. Where I can get best seeds and follow proper method to grow it.
Thanks so much for this video! Do you happen to know if you can harvest the tips of the vine later in the season or only the young spring shoots? Are there certain varieties that have better shoots (or more shoots) than others?
Hey Haphazard Great info thank you! My question is, I have recently planted rhizomes and am wondering if I should cut the first shoots this year or let them run and establish? Also wondered if rabbits are a nuisance? We are growing in the UK MANY THANKS
Congratulations on planting your own hops, chip jem! You are set for many years of enjoyment! With first year roots, it's best to let them grow unpruned. Just so they can produce more vegetation and establish their roots during this upcoming season. After that, you will be harvesting more and more shoots every year. Hops can be monsters! I can't say about the rabbits. I don't have any around. But I do have nutria (Myocastor coypus), also called Coypu. They like to eat many plant roots, but never bother my hops. Checking with other hop growers, most don't have rabbit trouble. Maybe somebody else here can comment, too, if they've had other experience. Enjoy your hops!
I've never seen hop shoot. I got here, upon searching on Google after reading my local news website that put this plant on their articles. It is said as one of five veggies that the price will drain your wallet (super expensive). But, I have suggestion to cook it, how about deep fried it with batter? (after bleaching it) or make a soup (like asparagus soup)?
I would really like to grow hops and have a nice area for large pots. I would love to have these for eating and brewing. I live in Iowa was wondering about 2 plats each of Magnum, Comet, simcoe, Centennial, and williamatte. At least Magnum, Simcoe and Williamatte. Good idea or any advise? Thanks!
