Muscadine trellis ideas

Muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia) are backyard grapevines native to the south. Here's a guide to growing and caring for this plant.

Muscadine grapes (Muscadinia rotundifolia; formerly Vitis rotundifolia) are truly a fruit for the South. Native to the Southeastern United States, they...

Grapes can be one of the most rewarding crops in your garden! The bunches are beautiful, sweet and slightly sour, absolutely delicious, and being such prolific growers, they will provide for your fresh grape consumption

Recommended grape cultivars and how to plant grapes for the backyard grower.

Here's how to plant and grow muscadine plants.

Here at the Carter homestead we are always looking for ways to expand our food production and to do this as inexpensively as possible. When a friend of mine offered me some muscadine vines I jumped at the opportunity. This opportunity only presented one challenge. I had no trellis. I thought about letting the vines run up a couple trees that we have on our place. After all that is what they do in the wild. That wouldn't have cost us anything, but there would be a lot of fruit that we…

What’s better than muscadines? Muscadine wine! But before you harvest your own muscadines to produce your own wine you need to first build a trellis. If you would have asked me a few months ago how to build a muscadine trellis I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. However, I did know one thing about muscadine vines and that is that they can be very heavy. As the saying goes: “necessity is the mother of invention” and I knew just enough about the vine to design and construct my own simple…

Building a Grape Arbor is easier than you might think. Check out this post to see how we built this simple but beautiful grape arbor at our home.

Grape trellis is easy to construct, provided that you use durable equipment and follow certain basic tips. This article provides instructions to build your own trellis.