Yesterday I received a text message in the morning from my mom explaining that my plants were growing out of their buckets and would need their trellis built here soon. I went over there that night to start building it, with no real plan in mind. When I got there my mom informed me that the night before a pair of deer decided to have a little snack on my damn hop plants. Clearly it was a little more bitter for their taste as they only had 2 bites off of them, but managed to eat all of my mom's flowers. (Sorry mom, can't remember the type of flower you told me). To add insult to injury, last weekend while I was up camping something, either the hailstorm we had or an animal, uprooted my hops plant letting it dry out in the sun over the whole weekend. I put it back in the ground but I have a bad feeling it's not going to pop back this time. I plan on putting a chicken wire fence around it. I'm tempted to add some voltage to that fence.
Back to building the trellis.
So I didn't have much in mind on how exactly I was going to build this. I knew how my friends Ted and Paul built theirs, so I had some ideas. After moving the plants a few times I finally figured out a plan of attack. With string, stakes, a ladder, scissors, and a staple gun in hand I was ready to attack. Here's my final product:
The green stuff on top of the stakes is irish spring to keep the damn deer away. Hopefully these little guys will start growing here soon. As for pictures of my plant, while, not much to show.. some dirt is about it. The little guy that was poking out before died in the heat.
Beer I drank while writing this: Tyranena Brewing Bitter Woman IPA. It seemed only correct giving my bitter state right now at animals.
Prost!
-Ryan
