Lessons Learned: Growing Pomegranates

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This rerun is a review of growing everyone’s favorite fall and winter fruit: pomegranates! Not only are they tasty, they’re highly nutritious too. Learn all you need to know about this history of this delicious fruit, as well as how to grow it. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/47QH0uF Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3No9Avf Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/41jnuV3 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3uWyxHJ Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello my friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening we are recuperating resting and
0:16.7	planning for 2024 so today's episode is a rerun of some of our favorites from years past.
0:23.5	Hope you enjoy.
0:25.0	What's going on everyone?
0:27.0	Welcome back.
0:28.0	Kevin here from Epic Gardening.
0:30.0	Today we're talking,
0:31.0	pomegranates an amazing
0:33.2	amazing fruit. It really is in a class of its own. They produce these
0:39.9	beautiful fruits filled with little arrows or sort of sacks of sweet juice.
0:45.0	This tree originated abroad and of course it's become a hit in the United States and globally with the
0:51.0	pomegranate craze of pomegranate juice, pome, etc.
0:55.0	So we all know pomegranate as a fall and winter fruit.
0:58.0	It is visible in a cornucopia during Thanksgiving,
1:01.0	or you'll see it in between pine bows around Christmas but the juice of the fruit
1:04.8	like I said it's used year-round in grenadine for mixed drinks packed with antioxidants
1:09.6	packed with vitamins so naturally why not grow it in the garden? Let's learn that today.
1:16.0	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
1:26.9	like a wildfire.
1:28.6	It was spoken of in mythology and religious literature.
1:31.0	The pomegranate permeated all forms of history throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
1:36.6	In fact, the Egyptians used it in artwork.
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