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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- Costs and Returns from Muscadines
- Uses of Muscadines
- Areas of Adaptation
- Vineyard Location
- Cultivars
- Selection and Care of Transplants
- Vineyard Arrangement and Pollination
- Row Orientation and Length
- Soil Preparation
- Vineyard Planning for Post and Plant Spacing
- Selecting Posts
- Setting the Plants
- Trellises
- Training the Vines to the Trellis
- Multiple Trunk Training Method
- Single Trunk Training Method
- Dormant Pruning of Cordons the First Time (Initial Long Cane Pruning System)
- Pruning Young Bearing and Mature Vines
- Pruning Neglected Vines
- Fertilization
- Irrigation of Muscadines
- Soil and Leaf Analysis for Muscadines
- Recommendations for Organic Method Growers
- Possible Strategies for Overproducing Cultivars
- Cold Protection and Recovery Strategies
- Weed Control and Cover Crops
- Muscadine Grape Diseases
- Controlling Muscadine Grape Diseases
- Harvesting and Marketing
- Table 4 – Fresh Market Muscadine Cultivars
- Table 5 – Processing Muscadine Cultivars