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[Bob Randall <YearRoundGardening@comcast.net>]

Here in Houston zone 9b, (we think we are southeast since we are humid  
and Gulf)--

I have a lot of experience with muscadines.  The best flavored  
varieties are Ison (pollinator) and Darlen (Darlene) overall.  They  
probably will work in North Carolina.

For bunch grapes, I would recommend Mortensen Hardy.  It has about two  
seeds and seems to be very PD resistant (as Dr Mortensen designed it),  
and tasty. From the same program as Orlando but much bigger grapes and  
sweeter. I seem to have gotten the triploid mutation and so named it.  
You can get it from Edible Landscaping in Afton VA.

I bag grapes and other fruit before they turn color in cheap bags made  
from fiberglass window screening (Home Depot). Use scissors to cut  
strips. Make it double think. Staple 3 sides.  Very quick and durable.

Fix on fruit with wooden clothespins.  No holes.

Bob Randall
On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> I am finally getting my arbor built. I am planning on trying 2  
> varieties
> of grapes that I have selected for: low care in my hot, humid climate
> and for fresh eating, cooked fruit items, and maybe preserves if I get
> ambitious.  I plan on only using Surround for insect control (Japanese
> beetles are a perennial problem for me). I am currently favoring  
> Cowart,
> a disease-resistant muscadine, and am considering the seedless  
> Concord.
> I grew up loving the seeded Concord in the northeast, I am wondering  
> how
> the seedless will do.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Betsy Hilborn
> 7a, NC
>
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       Bob Randall, Ph.D.
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