Hops before St James’s Day

25 July · Herefordshire

Lore and belief

Among the folk lore of St James’s Day Chambers gives a Herefordshire saying about the county’s hop crop. Until the saint’s day had come and gone, nobody could say whether there would be a crop of hops or none at all. Chambers takes it as a sign of how uncertain that local harvest was known to be.

Till St James's Day is past and gone, There may be hops or they may be none

From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 2, p. 122. Read the original

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