{"id":2881,"date":"2014-06-19T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2014-06-19T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:02:12","slug":"irrigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2014\/06\/19\/irrigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We began irrigating on the week of June 1<sup>st<\/sup> and will continue to irrigate until harvest at the end of August. Hops require a lot of water! We strongly recommend that you irrigate, and once you are done, irrigate some more. Chris Lattak of the Trickl-eez irrigation company recommends 16 gallons per plant per week. That&#8217;s a hard number to hit &#8211; we won&#8217;t be reaching it because we&#8217;d run the well dry &#8211; but it&#8217;s a good goal. For evidence to the value in irrigation, see this recent SARE grant study from Aroostook Farm in Maine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroostookhops.com\/uploads\/SAREFinalReport2012FNE11-711.pdf\">http:\/\/www.aroostookhops.com\/uploads\/SAREFinalReport2012FNE11-711.pdf<\/a>. \u00a0This year we also added a fertigation system, which applies fertilizer through the drip irrigation. The fertigation started the week of June 9<sup>th<\/sup>. More information to come on our fertigation system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We began irrigating on the week of June 1st and will continue to irrigate until harvest at the end of August. Hops require a lot of water! We strongly recommend that you irrigate, and once you are done, irrigate some more. Chris Lattak of the Trickl-eez irrigation company recommends 16 gallons per plant per week. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/2014\/06\/19\/irrigation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irrigation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"hoppenin","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/author\/hoppenin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hoppenin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}