Pool and Hops
Sep. 18th, 2009 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenWork on drainage was done in the upper field last month. I have photos somewhere... then work had to be done on drainage in the lower part of the field, as the pool was getting a bit large.
This is from up by the barn. I thought I'd start up here, to try to give a sense of scale.
A little closer....
A little closer yet...
As you can see, there are some leaves forming and growing from out of the cones! I'll pull those before drying them; fortunately most of them don't have these, but it's kind of interesting, I think.
And here we are! Jimmy, one of the guys who worked on unplugging the drainage pipes and pumping some of the water out, said the local blue heron stopped by while he was working, speared a frog and then took off. The heron often hangs out up at the lake, but he likes fishing in the river that circuits the field here.
And a couple of pictures of hops. The first is me standing by the hops, in front of our little plot of corn. The second is a closeup of some interesting hop flowers (called cones), with a possible explanation for calling them leaf hops. The person who wrote up the information/instruction booklet on growing hops mention that he doesn't know why they're called leaf hops when it's the flowers you're harvesting, not the leaves. I was thinking maybe it was because the flowers are green ("leaf" green?) but maybe not....
This is from up by the barn. I thought I'd start up here, to try to give a sense of scale.
A little closer....
A little closer yet...
As you can see, there are some leaves forming and growing from out of the cones! I'll pull those before drying them; fortunately most of them don't have these, but it's kind of interesting, I think.
And here we are! Jimmy, one of the guys who worked on unplugging the drainage pipes and pumping some of the water out, said the local blue heron stopped by while he was working, speared a frog and then took off. The heron often hangs out up at the lake, but he likes fishing in the river that circuits the field here.
And a couple of pictures of hops. The first is me standing by the hops, in front of our little plot of corn. The second is a closeup of some interesting hop flowers (called cones), with a possible explanation for calling them leaf hops. The person who wrote up the information/instruction booklet on growing hops mention that he doesn't know why they're called leaf hops when it's the flowers you're harvesting, not the leaves. I was thinking maybe it was because the flowers are green ("leaf" green?) but maybe not....
