Awe, Bonus children, with power tools, are a blessing.

Awesome muscadine grapes appreciate you my friend and with God’s grace you will be enjoying some grapes soon

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

The roots will be 4 years old this year - last year, one of the males produced a few .. they may not be as sweet as the females, but they were very, VERY good! I got them from the Wilson's, who have the mother vine, in NC. Oh, you'll like this: When they got the house back in 1957, that vine covered two acres .. they cut it back some to build their house .. it now measures 30' by 120 ' and has its own arbor .. what a beast!

Nice

Jason's built Ford tough! My Dad and I's cabin (grey battleship) has character, definitely! ha! Older brother says the only thing that has value is the pole barn and property itself. Screw him! haha, just having fun.

I have tons of different Muscatine grapes on my property here in North Florida and I have seen some on my property in Georgia too.

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

There were a lot to chose from from commercial growers, so I picked ones with high sugar content, hopefully good for wine .. we can turn all the pear into vinegar, and save them for the good stuff 😊

We have Concord grapes. That's about what we can do. Good to see your chaps there too! I need to pay more attention to my horticulture. Fruit trees, living, no fruit! HA! A grape arbor, nothing like it! I even put posts in for eventual cables for runners. Yeah, jack diddle. Niagra table grapes. It's pathetic! ha I'd be Better off going fishing!

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

Nothing at all wrong with growing those grapes .. I'm no 'Natives Only' ninny The soil will grow what the soil will grow .. so if Niagara table grapes want to grow, grow 'em! we had a couple Concord vines on the farm when I was a kid .. often, the unripened fruits were conscripted to join in the battles fought between my elder brothers and myself, having been deemed 'safe' to use as slingshot ammunition

So interestingto see your friend and you at work in the Arbor, and I've seen that word before, Muscadine, I figured it was just another name for grapes, now I know the difference, thanks to you Jason, where as grapes grow in clusters, muscadines don't. 😊👍

@Green.Country.Agroforestry

2 ай бұрын

They *are* grapes .. just different from the ones that Europeans were familiar with .. the Algonquian knew them, of course .. but the first cultivar recognized by the newcomers was in 1760 in North Carolina, near a place called 'Scuppernong'. The North American Native Grapes were so large they astounded the colonists, who first called it 'The Great White Grape" Muscadine grapes come in a variety of colors, but the bronze colored ones are still commonly called 'Scuppernongs'. Aside from the size of the fruits, they also differ in the way the fruit forms: Individually, rather than in a branched cluster - _Individual Achievement Over Collectivist Uniformity? How American!_ - The oldest known Muscadine vine is also in North Carolina, and is estimated to be over 400 years old .. and still produces a light, sweet, mildly acidic wine.