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Table of Contents:

1. 1. Introduction
   2. Costs and Returns from Muscadines
   3. Uses of Muscadines
   4. Areas of Adaptation
   5. Vineyard Location
   6. Cultivars
   7. Selection and Care of Transplants
   8. Vineyard Arrangement and Pollination
   9. Row Orientation and Length
   10. Soil Preparation
   11. Vineyard Planning for Post and Plant Spacing
   12. Selecting Posts
   13. Setting the Plants
   14. Trellises
   15. Training the Vines to the Trellis
   16. Multiple Trunk Training Method
   17. Single Trunk Training Method
   18. Dormant Pruning of Cordons the First Time (Initial Long Cane Pruning System)
   19. Pruning Young Bearing and Mature Vines
   20. Pruning Neglected Vines
   21. Fertilization
   22. Irrigation of Muscadines
   23. Soil and Leaf Analysis for Muscadines
   24. Recommendations for Organic Method Growers
   25. Possible Strategies for Overproducing Cultivars
   26. Cold Protection and Recovery Strategies
   27. Weed Control and Cover Crops
   28. Muscadine Grape Diseases
   29. Controlling Muscadine Grape Diseases
   30. Harvesting and Marketing
   31. Table 4 – Fresh Market Muscadine Cultivars
   32. Table 5 – Processing Muscadine Cultivars