In article , SG1
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As a child living in Nth Central Victoria, there was a particular house I
used to walk past. They had this magnificent Pomegranate tree that always
seemed (well looking back that is) to be full of fruit. And of course being
8-9 years old did I resist NO WAY. Well to make a short story long, after
nearly 50 years I now have my own tree, planted it on Saturday. Hope they
still taste as great

I have an enormous pomegranate tree in my backyard which produces an
abundance of fruit each summer - it always looks quite festive around
Christmas.

You are about the first person who I have found who has expressed much
interest in them. While they do look good, and the tree is quite
attractive, with beautiful bark, actually eating them is an exercise in
futility. A lot of large, bitter seeds, with a smallish amount of
delicately flavoured pulp around each, the whole lot encased and
permeated with highly bitter and adhering pith. You basically chew the
pulp off a mouthful of these seeds, then spit them out. Genuine
grenadine is made from juice extracted from the pulp, but there does
not seem to be much more that can be done with them.

If you have any hard paving under the tree you will need to harvest the
fruit before they fall, as they will shatter otherwise, throwing seeds
and pulp everywhere. The word Œgrenade¹ (as in Œsmall explosive device
which blasts small pieces of shrapnel everywhere¹) is actually derived
from the word Œpomegranate¹ for just this reason!

Don¹t get me wrong - it is a beautiful tree, and I went to great
lengths to retain it and work it into the design when I renovated the
house. But when it was planted thirty or more years ago, I do wish they
had had a yearning for a home grown mango or peach instead!

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