Take your family out and gather the wild fruits while your dogs run!
Sure makes a fine outing. Teaches kids something they ought to know. Never seen them as big in years, almost as big as plums. Scupanons next month.
Muscadines and Persimmons ripe
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Alabama John
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Ummm Hey John Ya Aint gonna happen to Ferment any this year are ya????
Aint had No Fermented Muscadine for a LOOONNNGGGG Time LOL...
Mulberry Trees Sure produced here this year and The persimmon Tree Looks to have a Good Crop here.. got Real Lucky that the Old Owners of this place missed em and didnt cut em Down Like they did the Hickory tree!!!
Couple Small trees Growin back at the Stump though Hopefully My Daugter will be able to enjoy em in the years to come...... man I love the Fall of the year.
Aint had No Fermented Muscadine for a LOOONNNGGGG Time LOL...
Mulberry Trees Sure produced here this year and The persimmon Tree Looks to have a Good Crop here.. got Real Lucky that the Old Owners of this place missed em and didnt cut em Down Like they did the Hickory tree!!!
Couple Small trees Growin back at the Stump though Hopefully My Daugter will be able to enjoy em in the years to come...... man I love the Fall of the year.
From Field to Show and Show to Field the way it should be
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dannycrlsn
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Muscadines and Persimmons Ripe
They are grapes!
John,
Muscadines are the best here this year they have been since I was a kid.
My concord grapes did better than ever have this year too, 42 pints of Jelly & 8 of the 2 litre bottles of some other stuff that I keep around for medicinal purposes only.
The Blackberries were best in long time also here this year, 24 pints of jelly & put a dozen pies in the freezer.
Wild pears were not good here at my place though, but the mulberry tree was loaded as it could be, but takes so many of them to fill your bucket, its a lot like work, just had a couple pies.
My son is tickled we can finally run dogs without having to pick blackberries, but he doesn't complain when he is filling the center of a hot cathead biscuit with butter & fresh jelly.
Take care,
Plowboy
Muscadines are the best here this year they have been since I was a kid.
My concord grapes did better than ever have this year too, 42 pints of Jelly & 8 of the 2 litre bottles of some other stuff that I keep around for medicinal purposes only.
The Blackberries were best in long time also here this year, 24 pints of jelly & put a dozen pies in the freezer.
Wild pears were not good here at my place though, but the mulberry tree was loaded as it could be, but takes so many of them to fill your bucket, its a lot like work, just had a couple pies.
My son is tickled we can finally run dogs without having to pick blackberries, but he doesn't complain when he is filling the center of a hot cathead biscuit with butter & fresh jelly.
Take care,
Plowboy
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Alabama John
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They grow on a vine and run up the trees in the wild. Climb or shake vines. They are not in bunches like grapes at the store, but single. You don't eat the outside, its too thick, but put the stem end in your lips, pointed toward the inside of your mouth, in your mouth and squeeze the muscadine hard with your fingers.
It will pop open and squirt the pulp and some of the sweetest juice will pop in your mouth.
Taste like wine and are 25% sugar.
TC, you're right, that sugar makes for good fermenting.
Plowboy Great jelly too. Best there is! You're as big a gatherer as we are. You're set for all winter. Do you gather herbs too?
Medicinal????? HA
Kidd, How much wine out of 2 gallons ?
Muscadine Purple, Scupanine is cousin, greenish yellow but ripens 30 days later.
Wife doesn't like them turning her legs green when she gets in that 55 gallon drum and has to jump up and down and march around to get the juice.
Not up North? I didn't know that.
It will pop open and squirt the pulp and some of the sweetest juice will pop in your mouth.
Taste like wine and are 25% sugar.
TC, you're right, that sugar makes for good fermenting.
Plowboy Great jelly too. Best there is! You're as big a gatherer as we are. You're set for all winter. Do you gather herbs too?
Medicinal????? HA
Kidd, How much wine out of 2 gallons ?
Muscadine Purple, Scupanine is cousin, greenish yellow but ripens 30 days later.
Wife doesn't like them turning her legs green when she gets in that 55 gallon drum and has to jump up and down and march around to get the juice.
Not up North? I didn't know that.
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Jack Keller's home page from Texas is full of Muscadine and scuppernog "stories" 
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/plants.asp
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/plants.asp