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["MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>]

What is your normal low for the winter and do you have a snow cover most of the winter? 6B is supposed to be 0 to -5 (F). There are 3 or 4 varieties of pomegranate that can stand weather down to -5  (it also depends on the lenght of time of the low temperature) and a variety that stands being covered with snow all winter. They were orignally from Russia.

Richard Ashton

Brownwoood, Texas

7b/8a Central Texas

----- Original Message -----

From: John Barbowski

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:13 PM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pomegranate

I just returned from Phoenix where for the 1st time in about 20 years, I had a pomegranate. It was the size of a large grapefruit and cost $3.99 US - never paid more than $.70 Cdn. I have never seen them this big and I just had to give it a try. I now know what the 'Nectar of the Gods' is like. Give me more "trouble" - please! Wish I could grow them here in Cdn Zone 6B just north of Toronto.

 

I later purchased a regular sized one, the size of a baseball, and it was just ordinary.

jb

 

 

On 12/1/05, MARIE ASHTON <bwoodtx@verizon.net> wrote:

How many of you are interested in pomegranates. It seems that many people think they are too much trouble to eat. They are somewhat troublesome, but some think they are worth the trouble.   The easiest  way to utilize them is to juice them with a common citrus/orange press, that's just a pressure press not the kind with the reamer as that kind will get the partation material and skin into the juice and that is bitter (tannin). There are a lot of new varieties available now and some cold hardy ones.

Richard Ashton

zone 7b/8a Central Texas

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