It's Jelly Time

[WOODIE13]

Do you have fox grapes up there, or just those peas-sized possum grapes? We have both, but you don't see the fox grapes as much as we used to.

We have both, fox grapes have fallen off here too.

This is a vine I have running down an old fence, started using it for starters.

 

[Resica]

Do you have fox grapes up there, or just those peas-sized possum grapes? We have both, but you don't see the fox grapes as much as we used to.

We have fox grapes, summer, frost and sand grapes here in Pa.

 

[WOODIE13]

We have fox grapes, summer, frost and sand grapes here in Pa.

Terminology from different locations have me at a loss.

 

[Resica]

Terminology from different locations have me at a loss.

Me too.

 

[NCHillbilly]

We have fox grapes, summer, frost and sand grapes here in Pa.

Summer grapes are what we call possum grapes here.

 

[Big7]

Fruit stand up the road has some big- uns from close by here somewhere. They are good. 2.99 a pound right now and he has a bunch more on the vine.

I had a supply for many, many years then I made the mistake of loaning my buddy's son some big money. He was supposedly a good fried too so I don't go around there because I got a bad temper.

At our first house when I was a kid we had a giant scuppernong vine, more like a bush and it would get loaded down. Daddy would make wine out of them and muscadines too. They were wild all over the farm he grew up on.

He wasn't a big drinker but he liked to give it away. He made it in milk churns in the cool crawlspace. It was clear as a bell and he would give me a thimble full once in a while.

Good ole' days we can't get back.

 

[WOODIE13]

Summer grapes are what we call possum grapes here.

These suckers are still bitter, usually rippen mid October. Maybe the same, maybe different, not sure.

Soil, sun, water and temperatures have a lot to do too

 

[whitetailfreak]

Kris, you need to come fish Cataloochee and bring some jelly.

Now that sounds like a deal brother

 

[NCHillbilly]

Made ten jars of muscadine jelly yesterday, got enough juice to make three more runs.

 

[WOODIE13]

Made ten jars of muscadine jelly yesterday, got enough juice to make three more runs.

No wine?

 

[DOUG 281]

good jelly they make some good wine also

 

[whitetailfreak]

Made ten jars of muscadine jelly yesterday, got enough juice to make three more runs.

Good deal, you beat the hippies and the bears to em I guess

 

[NCHillbilly]

Good deal, you beat the hippies and the bears to em I guess

For once. Seen a coon running across the parking lot the other morning when I pulled up. He had a purple nose.

 

[LTZ25]

looks delicious , but I'd pig out on the muscadines .