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This post was inspired by muscadine jelly — and the unexpected ways it showed up in my week. While riding along the Tanglefoot Trail, we saw ripe muscadines scattered across a wooden bridge, fallen ...
Taste Test Tuesday got a little wild with the 6 in the morning team. They tried out handmade muscadine jelly, which Tess Maune's husband made using muscadine grapes that the two picked in the wild in ...
I thought everyone grew up eating muscadine grapes. Then I was at the market and this nice lady told me she had purchased some, but that the skins were like chewing gum. She didn’t realize you spit ...
There's problem, though. Many people have a hard time getting past the thick skin and bitter seeds of the muscadine. Not totally unexpected for a fruit that takes its name from the smell of a male ...
Muscadine grapes are typically ready to harvest in the late summer to early fall, such as August and September. While muscadines are sweet and can be enjoyed straight off the vine, they can also be ...
The muscadine grape is as Southern as cotton - actually, it is more so, since it is native to the region. The various kinds of cotton grown in the South, Gossypium species, are native to Asia, Africa ...
Two types of grapes thrive in the Sunshine State: muscadine and Florida hybrid bunch grapes. Both are used as table fruit and for wine, juice and jelly-making. Grape harvest season begins in late June ...
Perhaps no other fruit is better adapted to South Carolina’s climate than muscadine grapes (Muscadinia rotundifolia). A cousin of table and wine grapes, muscadines are much more tolerant of our heat, ...