Learn how to plant, grow, and train muscadine grapes in your backyard garden. This southern grape is hardy and fun fruit to grow!

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…

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Growing muscadine grapes is easier than you think - nothing beats a vine-picked muscadine!

How to Build a Simple Grape Arbor I purchased 3 new grapevines at the Spring Planting Festival at Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds this spring in Missouri. I had t

Learn to build your own wire trellis. Great for growing grapes, climbing vegetables and even roses, This wire trellis makes a great DIY weekend project!

A grape vine trellis is a structure that provides support for grapevines, as the vines are not strong enough to support themselves.

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

Trellis for my grape vine simple diy under $10

Last Friday Handsome & I spent the day at Tryon Palace…..enjoying the gardens and the annual Heritage Plant Sale. I love the potager at Tryon Palace….. ooooooo, I’d love to have one like it! Throughout the potager {traditional kitchen garden} they have many espaliered fruit trees. Figs, apples, pears. Espalier is a French word that […]