But then, I walked past some wild grape vines on the way back to my house, and the beckoning aroma of wild grapes stopped me in my tracks. OK, I thought. It’s fall. Not just in my yard.

Dear T.S.: Wild grapes have separate male and female vines. Cultivated grape flowers have both male and female parts (hermaphroditic) so they all have fruit, but they were selected for that.

Space your new grape vines and the transplanted wild grape at least 10 feet apart. There is no need to construct a trellis prior to planting. A trellis can be built during the summer.

Are grape vines hard to train? Where do wild grapes come from? -- T.S., East Syracuse. Dear T.S.: People have been cultivating grapes for thousands of years, but before that there were wild grapes.

These grapes are growing behind my house. Are they edible? They’re about the size of a pea. This is a wild grape vine, probably fox grapes. The fruit are edible when ripe, though extremely tart ...

The Kudzu is a non-native invasive vine that is a significant part of the our ecosystem. However, the Kudzu carries with it ...

1. Pick the grapes Look for thick, prolific grape vines on shorelines or wherever the soil is sandy. The grapes are ready to harvest when they turn purple—usually early to mid-October.

My Aunt Mary John would stop the car, we’d get out and pull the vine down and take the “gold” home. Leaves from that wild grape vine would be used the next day for dolmas, stuffed grape leaves.

Several species of wild grape vines are found in the Poconos, and all can be easily distinguished from other vines by their dark, loosely shredded bark which is peeled off by many kinds of birds ...

Environment Food & Drink ‘The Wild Vine’: resurrecting the Norton grape from the compost heap of history Originally published August 14, 2010 at 7:00 pm Updated August 14, 2010 at 9:01 pm ...

One species that hate wild grapes, or rather, wild grape vines, is the Homo sapiens suburbani — the suburban land owner. The vines grow tall and thick, up to the crowns of trees.