Southern Home Grape

The Southern Home Grape is a unique combination of ornamental climber and producer of delicious muscadine grapes, combined in a single plant. It is ideal for any home garden, to cover a fence, drape an arbor, grow over an arch, or decorate a trellis. The beautiful leaves are large and lobed like a maple tree leaf. They turn a grape vine into a plant of great beauty and ornamental value. As well, this plant produces a crop of delicious muscadine grapes, the best-tasting grapes in the world. With just a few seeds, and thin skin, these are delicious grapes to eat out of hand, and if you have never eaten a muscadine grape, you will be amazed at the sweetness and richness of the special flavor of this southern-style grape. This vigorous vine grows well throughout zones 7, 8, or 9, or inside a greenhouse or sunporch in cooler areas.

• Unique combination of beauty and utility
• Ornamental vine with edible grapes
• Handsome ‘maple leaf’ foliage makes an ornamental vine
• Delicious crop of black muscadine grapes for family eating
• Highly resistant to pests and diseases – no need to spray

Plant your Southern Home Grape in a sunny spot, in well-drained soil, and train it along a fence, or up an arbor. It is very resistant to the diseases that plaque most grapes, and usually free of pest attack too. So you can grow it without any spraying, which means you can harvest natural, chemical-free grapes from your own garden. The vine should be pruned each year in late winter, to maintain a framework of strong, young canes, from which the annual growth of ornamental leaves and tasty fruit will be produced.