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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 83986, member: 944"] I doubt if you will be able to purchase Muscadine plants. They aren't really all that good and they are invasive. Also only certain parts of Texas are conducive for growing table and wine grapes and those areas are well to the west of Austin. There is a growing wine industry in Texas but it is specialized as to certain root stocks and soils. There is a disease called Pierces disease which decimates just about all of the good edible grapes and many of the wine grapes and this disease is prevalent over most of Texas, especially the Austin area. There are a couple of good varieties that can be purchased however that are resistant to Pierces. One is a wine grape called Black Spanish and another is a table grape called Victoria Red.. So basically what I am saying is that wild grapes in Texas suck unless you make homemade wine and jelly [/QUOTE]