RE: Spouses and the Garden now hops

I ordered a "Golden Hops" vine from somewhere in the pacific northwest about
5 years ago. Man, does it ever spread! Its main home is clambering up a
7-foot wrought iron arch in the backyard. And it has hops fruits (?) all
over at this time. Cute green papery cones.

Then I dug up rooted runners and planted it to grow up a trellis outside a
first floor bathroom window, and it did such a good job of growing that it
is like being inside a jungle now in the washroom looking out at the thick
greenery. But.... I had to suspend strings from the second floor bathroom
window above to tie to the trellis to stabilize it and the hops continued to
grow up to the second story on the cords. When it began reaching for the
brand new gutters we had installed this year, I had to get a long bamboo
pole and beat it back down!!!!

I've given pieces away to friends (with warnings); I hope they don't curse
my name in years to come.

-Barb in WI

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