Grapes

IMPORTANT NOTE: We have been pushing the envelope with muscadines. “Officially” (Cooperative Extension recommendations), they can’t be grown in NW Arkansas or colder than USDA Climate Zone 7a with a predicted low winter temperature of zero degrees F. However, we’ve been growing and fruiting muscadines for over 15 years now and have had very little …

A large, deep purple, sweet grape with the desirable quality of ripening very late, sometimes even into late October when other grapes are long gone.

I love this beautiful purple grape!  The berries are small but hang in long, pendulous clusters.  Flavor is sweet but sprightly.  As Munson himself noted, “Succeeds everywhere in the South” and “A splendid arbor grape.” SOLD OUT

A large, purple grape remarkably tolerant of heat and drought.  Very sweet with flavor similar to Concord, but much easier to grow.

A black grape with claret-red juice and melting flesh!  Small seeds separate easily from the pulp.  Tolerates heat better than most grapes.  Like all the Munson grapes, exceedingly disease resistant. SOLD OUT

Munson crossed ‘Elvira’ with the Texas Mustang grape and came up with this super disease resistant, pink, flavorful, and heavy-bearing grape.  It is also one of the quickest to grow and come into bearing of the Munson varieties.

A red Munson variety with absolutely fantastic flavor. Because of its red color, the birds home in on it selectively: be sure to be ready with bird netting as the grapes begin to color up. Brilliant is not quite as black rot resistant as the other Munson types, but I’ll take some small losses to …

A large-clustered, black wine grape with Cynthiana (Norton) as one parent.  Similar to Le Noir and Pinot Noir wine grapes BUT Ben Hur can be grown without fungicides! SOLD OUT

Munson cultivar, Texas 1883.  Once an important commercial variety throughout the South, this is the most beautiful grape that can be grown without sprays:  big, tight clusters of blue-black plump grapes.  Still grown commercially in Texas.  Excellent flavor. SOLD OUT

Another great all-round Munson variety with small berries but large clusters.  Purplish-red.

Another great Munson cultivar from Texas 1885.  This is an unusual grape: smallish with loose clusters, but with pleasant blueberry and currant flavors.  Powder blue skin but the juice is bright red and beautiful.  One of my favorites.SOLD OUT

A T.V. Munson cultivar from his North Texas grape breeding program in the late 1800s. Medium-sized clusters, very large individual berries, blue-black. It turns color waaaay before it’s full ripe—be patient! You will be rewarded! Tart before it’s fully ripe, but then rich lubrusca flavor!  Super resistant to diseases, it is even grown in sultry …

A very sweet, large clustered white grape from the late Elmer Swenson of Minnesota. Highly resistant to all the major grape diseases. No spraying necessary for me. SOLD OUT