Pickled Muscadines. Seeding the grapes is a bit tedious, but worth it. The seeds are often quite large and there are two seeds per grape. The trick is to halve the grapes vertically with a paring ...

“Here’s the thing: vinifera grapes don’t grow here [in the South],” says Cary Cox, owner of Tsali Notch Vineyard in Madisonville, Tennessee, who makes both sweet and dry muscadine wines ...

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 ...

Most muscadine plants will grow about 12 inches the first year. They should reach the trellis wire by the third year. Muscadines are typically grown on a high wire cordon trellis.

In addition to the wines, Old South makes muscadine jelly and a nutritional supplement called New-U made from muscadine seeds and skins, which are loaded with antioxidants and other health benefits.

Once we pick the muscadines off the vine, there's a process of kind of separating the pulp from the skins, because there's a seed inside that muscadine grape, so we've got to kind of get that out.

So, if you see fresh muscadine grapes in stores, buying it will help local growers stay in business and grow the industry. For more information, call the Marion County Extension office at 671-8400 ...

Muscadines are a species of grapevine native to the South that thrives in hot and humid climates. Their unique texture and flavor, along with their large, uncouth seeds, have prevented them from ...

Gardening 101: Fruit trees 02:13 (CBSNewsTexas.com) — To grow native is to greatly increase your odds of a having a successful plant. Native species have already proven for centuries, if not ...