Grow your own organic hops with our organically grown hop rhizomes for home brewing or micro brewing. Hops are easy to grow from hop rhizomes for shade and privacy as well. Our organic hops rhizomes are grown organically without the use of commercial fertilizers or pesticides.

Shipping is FREE for hop orders. There is a ONE TIME $3.00 handling charge on each COMPLETE ORDER of hop rhizomes. Shipping begins in early March and continues as long as rhizomes stay dormant (usually sometime in April).

WE ARE NOW FINISHED SHIPPING HOPS FOR THE 2009 SEASON. ORDERS RECIEVED AFTER APRIL 21ST WILL BE SHIPPED EARLY MARCH 2010. MANY THANKS TO THE THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS THAT MADE THIS AN AWESOME SEASON. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR LITTLE VIDEO BELOW.

Due to the quarantine on hops coming from outside the state of Washington we can't ship hops to Washington until the quarantine is lifted. We also do not ship hops out of the U.S...sorry.

We have enjoyed growing hops for years now because it is absolutely fascinating to watch them grow so vigorously, reaching lengths of up to 25 feet. Their use as ornamentals is limitless. They can be easily trained to grow up trellises to provide shade and privacy in the summer when it’s hot, then because they die back in the fall, they are gone when we want all the sun we can get! I have seen them work really well trained to grow up poles to form a teepee.

The use of hops began as a kitchen herb, mentioned by the Roman scholar Pliny for its edible shoots, which are eaten in spring like asparagus. French and German brewers began using them to preserve and flavor their beers in the ninth and tenth centuries. Bavarian Hops became famous by the eleventh century, but it wasn’t until the sixteenth that the English replaced their traditional bitter herbs (Alehoof and Alecost) with hops. The Massachusetts Company introduced them to North America in 1629, but it took until 1800 before it was an important field crop. The end of the Eastern U. S. market came in the 1920s with a major out break of downy mildew. Today most hops are grown in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. Hops have a long history of medicinal uses as well. Probably the most popular being its use as a sedative due to the substance called lupulin.

Hops are unisexual, only the female hops produce the flowers used in brewing. All rhizomes we offer are female. As the female flower matures, they form cone-like structures. The mature cones are 1 to 3 inches long, yellowish green and papery to the touch. They are generally harvested in August and September dried and used for brewing, medicinal or ornamental uses.

There is some great information from the OSU Extension Service and the Oregon Hops Commission about growing hops at this site... www.oregonhops.org

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HUGE HOP RHIZOMES!!

Knock off a year or two of waiting for your hops to get full size with these extra large rhizomes. We got our hands on a limited amount of these unusually large rhizomes so they won't last long. At this point we only have Mt.Hoods left.

If you would like to see a little video of The Thyme Garden in action packing your hops click on this link - Happy Hoppers. This is most of The Thyme Garden family. Husband and wife Rolfe and Janet Hagen and daughter Bethany. Daughter Emily is missing. We aren't always this crazy, but maybe most of the time. We just love working together and doing the work we do. We send along a little of our good energy with each of our orders.

To use it as an aid for insomnia and restlessness the dried flower cones can be used in tea or stuffed in a hop pillow.