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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:02 PM, MARIE ASHTON 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

I am interested in pomegranate, but here in zone 6, I think I will have to content myself with indoor plants.  If anyone knows of a pomegranate hardy to zone 6, though, I'd be excited to try it.

Ginda

eastern MA, zone 6