I have a muscadine trellis with six plants. They have been in the ground for several years but had been growing rather slowly, root-hog-or-die style. Last year I harvested a few from my Ison muscadine vine, and one or two from a couple of the others. Then last winter I did some aggressive pruning and set them up for a good crop (I hoped).
In early August, the crop was looking very good. I started picking in mid-August, and have pulled about 10 pounds off so far, mostly from the Ison. Ison is listed by Ison's, the nursery that developed it and where I bought my vines, as an early variety. Two others are early-mid season, Darlene and Summit. I have been picking Summit for a while now--its yield will be about what the Ison was last year, a couple of pounds--and Darlene is just coming into harvest now, in mid-September. The other variety I will harvest some off of this year is Late Fry, which should be ready in October sometime.
So far I am not doing anything with them other than eating fresh and freezing for further fresh eating. At some point I might try to do something else with them. If they continue to grow well, I'll have ... a lot... to deal with in good years.
I'm seeing some fruit flies and yellow jackets around the Ison now that they're ripening, and I have also seen a stink bug or two. Overall, however, pest pressure has been minimal. Hopefully it stays like that.
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