How are common hops characterized?

How to grow common hops in the garden? Only it, from the variety of varieties, can be grown as a garden crop. This is a perennial plant of dioecious type. The rhizome is long, creeping.

How to grow common hops

Hops have a single-seeded fruit. The female cone contains glands - it is important not to lose them when collecting. Hops reproduce only by seeds. Vegetative propagation is also used. The plant lives 15-20 years. Common hops are very common - they are grown in the European part of the CIS, the Caucasus, Siberia, and in the regions of the Far East and Central Asia. It needs moist and moist fertile soils of black-alder, or oak-ash forests to grow. You can find it in floodplains, in thickets of bushes, and even in ravines. What do you need to grow?

• Support is a must;
• Weak shoots must be properly removed in the first year;
• The plant's roots develop so vigorously that measures must be taken to curb growth;
• At the end of summer, you need to start collecting female inflorescences - cones, but do not wait until they are completely ripe. Then their scales will not fall off, and the fruits can be dried even when picked;
• Growth in spring comes from the rhizome, since in the fall the upper part of the plant dies.

Selected cones are eliminated. For this you need a sieve. Then the hop glands can be used separately. A completely dry product is sifted through a sieve. And the glands are easy to recognize by their appearance. They are like a powder, a little sticky. When collecting, you must follow safety precautions.It is better to take their products internally on the advice of a doctor. After all, common hops are a poisonous plant.