Fox Grapes

[skyhightree1]

I walked my farm and looked around where my treestands were and this year I got a ton of Fox Grapes all together probably a few garbage bags full and the only thing I know to make is wine or grape juice any other suggestions?

 

[ga.prime]

Those look like muscadines, not fox grapes.

 

[tripleBfarms]

Same thing I believe. We call them fox grapes too.

 

[ga.prime]

That's interesting that y'all call those fox grapes. There's another kind of grapes that grows around here, less common and not as good to eat as muscadines, that I've always heard called fox grapes.

 

[skyhightree1]

Yea thats all they have been called all my life. Its funny how different regions call stuff different names.

 

[ga.prime]

After they start getting ripe, I eat a mess of them every day straight off the vine until there's not any left about 6 weeks later. :lol2: They're even better if you put them in the fridge and let them get good and cold. I've never made anything from them but I have had some very good wine made by others. You could probably make some good jelly from them.

 

[M5farm]

That's interesting that y'all call those fox grapes. There's another kind of grapes that grows around here, less common and not as good to eat as muscadines, that I've always heard called fox grapes.

gaprime, you probally have what we have and They have always been called bullis around here. they are deep purple ,almost black.

 

[skyhightree1]

After they start getting ripe, I eat a mess of them every day straight off the vine until there's not any left about 6 weeks later. :lol2: They're even better if you put them in the fridge and let them get good and cold. I've never made anything from them but I have had some very good wine made by others. You could probably make some good jelly from them.

You have some great ideas of eating them out the fridge and especially the jelly. :clap:

 

[TexasBred]

Use to have what my dad referred to as "Possum Grapes" when I was a kid. Don't now if they were good for anything...sour as he77 even when ripe.

 

[ga.prime]

That's interesting that y'all call those fox grapes. There's another kind of grapes that grows around here, less common and not as good to eat as muscadines, that I've always heard called fox grapes.

gaprime, you probally have what we have and They have always been called bullis around here. they are deep purple ,almost black.

That's right. We call the purple ones bullaces, or bullis as you say, and the bronze or copper colored ones scuppernongs. Both bullaces and scuppernongs are in the muscadine family of grapes. If I see a vine of what I know as fox grapes I'll take a pic and post it. They're sour like TB says about the possum grapes.

 

[tripleBfarms]

http://wildflowers.jdcc.edu/Grape.html

Some info here, maybe they are from the same family, but all different variaties.

 

[ga.prime]

The muscadines grow wild in the woods in great profusion and to the point of being a nuisance but they are also widely cultivated. There used to be a pick-your-own vineyard over near the Altamaha river just a few miles north of Baxley called "Belly Acres". Belly Acres had 40 varieties of bullaces and scuppernongs growing on trellises covering several acres. I have two trellises and two arbors myself. I have probably six varieties.