Finding and harvesting wild grapes is one of the sweetest parts of early fall. Store-bought will never taste the same again.

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One wild grape “look-alike” with poisonous fruits to be aware of is common moonseed. It has dark purple fruits that contain a single flat seed. Wild grapes contain 1-4 pear-shaped seeds.

Like many things in life, wild grapes have distinct up-and-down sides. A few days ago, I was walking one of the trails and noticed good numbers of robins and cedar waxwings darting among the trees.

Fifty or 60 species of wild grapes are native to the eastern and central parts of the U.S. and at least eight are native to Pennsylvania.

The recipe for grape jelly that comes with most pectin also works for wild grapes. Here’s the basic recipe with tips from my own experience. Grape Jelly Recipe Yields: 8 cups of jelly.

A. Wild grapes could be transplanted, but if you require table grapes, then you would do best with one of several cultivated muscadines (Vitis rotundifolia), of which, ...

Muscadines are an indigenous wild grape native to the Southeast.Typically, the gold green ones are referred to as scuppernongs, and the dark purple are known as muscadines.