What's going on everyone? Welcome back. Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Today we're talking

pomegranates, an amazing, amazing fruit. It really is in a class of its own. They produce these beautiful fruits filled

with little aerials or sort of sacks of sweet juice. This tree originated

abroad and of course it's become a hit in the United States

and globally with the pomegranate craze of pomegranate juice, pome, etc.

So we all know pomegranate as a fall and winter fruit.

It is visible in a cornucopia during Thanksgiving or you'll see it in between pine bows around Christmas

but the juice of the fruit like I said it's used year round in grenadine for mixed

drinks packed with antioxidants packed with vitamins so naturally why not grow it in the

garden let's learn that today first a little bit of history. The

pomegranate's origins are from Iran, Southeast to India, but once it was

discovered to be tasty, it really spread like a wildfire.

It was spoken of in mythology and religious literature.

The pomegranate permeated all forms of history throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. In fact, the Egyptians used it in artwork. The Greeks told tales of

Persephone eating but a few arrows while in the underworld. It was praised in the Old Testament of the Bible. There was somewhere it was

somewhere around the 1800. A cult of our named wonderful that made it to California and it has since

become a really popular fruit here in my home state.

But it has also been grown around the southern United States, in Mexico, in South America,

and basically every other warm climate worldwide.

So let's go ahead and talk about it.

A couple cultivars that you may want to consider.

In the United States, some of the most common are Russian red, the one that we mentioned wonderful, red silk and

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