Update 2025-09-01: Picked grapes 2025-08-25.
Thanks to the late Barney Ray for these Scuppernong grapes, which came from his arbor. Now they’re growing on ours, which we call woodhenge.
Very tasty.
Scuppernongs are a variety of Muscadine grapes. They are native here.
Gretchen says these are champaign scuppernongs, because of their color.
-jsq
Maybe I should have trimmed some more vines before backing in there.
I had sawed off that privet. It was supposed to push to the side when I backed the tractor with mower in.
Instead, the grapevines and Smilax decided that invasive exotic Chinese privet would go up on top of the tractor canopy.
Probably I would have noticed earlier, but I was concentrating on not backing into a tree and not getting caught around the throat by catbriars. You know those Smilax with the stout sharp thorns and thick stems: Smilax bona-nox.
Note to self: next time take a machete. Cutting each vine with clippers took a while.
-jsq
A walk in the woods one summer day.
![[Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-08-10--grapes-beaver-pond-sycamore-beggarticks-bananas-cypress-swamp/many.jpg)
Grapes, sycamore, banana, cypress swamp
Those grapes were ripe and tasty. Muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia. This is down by a beaver pond. Continue reading
They still look about that green, almost a month later:
But at least there are enough of them this year we may get some before the raccoons eat them all.
-jsq
Small, growing, ripe, picked, and now Gretchen is fermenting them: native Scuppernong Muscadine grapes (Vitis rotundifolia).
Very tasty!
![[Ripe grapes on the vine]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-08-24--grapes/20250824_102419.jpg)
![[Vines and privet]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-01-16--vines/20230116_173737.jpg)
![[Green Grapes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-29-grapes-corn-wasps/20200629_094033.jpg)