muscadine mowing

[fishfryer]

Today when mowing grass,I stopped at the muscadine vine and filled my front pocket with grapes. Mow a little, throw a grape in your mouth,works out pretty good. I have grapes now,just ran out of figs,pears are about gone. A simple little benefit to growing your own. You have to be conscious of what's in your hand though,a stinkbug or a wasp wouldn't be so good,according to Nicodemus a ladybug can ruin a whole pot of greens,add that one to the list.

 

[Darien1]

I get in my Polaris Ranger and drive down the gravel road for a couple of miles to the mail box and make a few stops on the way back to pick a few from the vines along the road. I love this time of year.

 

[Silver Britches]

I love 'em.

 

[zedex]

I have a neighbor who has wine grade grapes in his yard, along with Japanese pears and plums. Another neighbor has plum and pear trees that produce well. A fella a few doors down grows Washington apples and I have a large cherry tree that does well.
My daughter and I eat lots of fruits, the neighbors tell us to go grab fruits from their places because they dont eat much of it.

Another neighbor has brought over green beans, peas, unshucked corn and bags of tomatoes.

But, even after all that, I still miss muscadines. I use to eat them so much, I'd get stomach sick. But as long as there was one more, I'd eat it.

 

[fishfryer]

Yeah,I love em.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Muscadines make possibly the best jelly on earth, except for maybe elderberries and black raspberries.

 

[fireman32]

My youngest boy hits the edge of our field on the regular picking and eating all the scumplins he can hold.
And just to argue with the hillbilly, scumplin is only second best to plum jelly.

 

[zedex]

Muscadines make possibly the best jelly on earth, except for maybe elderberries and black raspberries.

How do you get muscadines home? Never happened for me

 

[oldways]

yep, I know you ain't got up there in the mountains but mayhaws make some fine jelly

 

[Nicodemus]

To me, wild blackberries make the best jelly, with mayhaw and muscadine a tossup for second.

 

[LTZ25]

You can get the best jelly at Kroger it’s pricey but all jelly is , it’s call Hero .

 

[treemanjohn]

How do you get muscadines home? Never happened for me

I can't get blackberries or Muscadines home ever

 

[dixiecutter]

Muscadines make possibly the best jelly on earth, except for maybe elderberries and black raspberries.

mayhaw

 

[zedex]

I can't get blackberries or Muscadines home ever

There must be some trick to it or it's a myth

 

[NCHillbilly]

mayhaw

I've never had it. They don't grow up here.

 

[Wifeshusband]

We've had a good crop of muscadines this year in west Georgia. Deer love 'em, as do I. My favorite jelly is muscadine jelly and the place to get it is the Country Store at Calloway Gardens. Blackberry picking was a ritual growing up. Back then it didn't matter if you were white or black, rich or poor, snooty or humble, all the kids picked blackberries at one point or another.

 

[GeorgiaGlockMan]

you were white or black, rich or poor, snooty or humble, all the kids picked blackberries at one point or another.

I was so poor in college, after I picked a bucket of blackberries, I had to borrow a cup of sugar from one friend and a couple cups of flour from another just to make some cobbler.

You could just about guarantee that they'd have another bucket picked and waiting the next day...

 

[specialk]

I've never had it. They don't grow up here.

we had plum-type fruit tree's in VA called damsons.....made the best preserves ever....ya'll got them up there?....

 

[notnksnemor]

Sand plums from east Kansas along with Indian peaches.
They grow wild along the side of the roads.

 

[Nicodemus]

Sand plums from east Kansas along with Indian peaches.
They grow wild along the side of the roads.

Indian peaches, that`s a new one to me. What are they like?