We wanted to get our own vines growing and Russ brought home a Muscadine vine from the Nursery that we works at during the summer. I located a good place in the yard to start our little vineyard and planted it, adding some composted chicken litter to get it growing. I was researching different trellises to see how I might build one for the vines to grow on, but in the end I opted for an inexpensive route. Using an 8 foot section of a hog panel, I wired it between two T-posts for the vines to grow on.
In no time flat the vines took off, adding new vines, leaves and as you can see below, baby grapes.
Little Muscadines |
Healthy muscadine plants |
We'll check back in on the muscadine vine from time to time and we'll show the harvest and how we make a product called New Wine, that we learned from reading the Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin. It doesn't look like much, but it tastes great. I don't know if we'll get enough grapes this year to make it, but we'll give it a try.
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