{"id":1100,"date":"2017-04-25T15:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:19:59","slug":"diy-hop-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1100","title":{"rendered":"DIY Hop Arbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our hops are finally strung! I ordered coir rope that is used by most hop growers &#8211; hopefully this doesn&#8217;t snap like the twine we used last year. Last year, all of the ropes slid together at the top.\u00a0Which stretched the ropes (and probably didn&#8217;t\u00a0do anything to keep the twine in one piece). This year,\u00a0used 3\/4&#8243; PVC piping (yet another\u00a0Home Depot purchase not being used as intended) and drilled holes through which the ropes are strung.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1101 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1147-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1147.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1147-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1147-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot easier to\u00a0get the strings up this year &#8211; we ran each individual rope through its hole and tied the stakes to each end. Then\u00a0pulled the\u00a0wire that runs between the two trees up and secured it onto the tree branches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1102\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1148-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1148.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1148-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of our vines were long enough to wrap onto the coir rope &#8212; so we&#8217;ve got hops\u00a0climbing their ropes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1103\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_1153.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our hops are finally strung! I ordered coir rope that is used by most hop growers &#8211; hopefully this doesn&#8217;t snap like the twine we used last year. Last year, all of the ropes slid together at the top.\u00a0Which stretched the ropes (and probably didn&#8217;t\u00a0do anything to keep the twine in one piece). This year,\u00a0used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[38,175],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homesteading","tag-gardening","tag-hops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}