Pomegranates

Chuck (CA) · Nov 5, 2010

When we moved here twenty four years ago, this old Pomegranate tree had already been here for a long time; being propped up and guy-wired together.
We don't do much to it except prune it and water it, but it must really appreciate it, because it pays us back handsomely every year.
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Chuck (CA) · Nov 5, 2010

Try it now.
Pomegranates

T.D.From Iowa · Nov 5, 2010

Whae do they taste like

Mike (WA) · Nov 5, 2010

When I was a kid, my grandma from Missouri used to tell about climbing up in a persimmon tree at the farm she grew up on, eating persimmons. Her dad would kid her, saying "You quit eatin' my 'simmons!", and she'd laugh and eat another. Her dad was later to die after being hit by ball lightning while picking up hay.

I went to the National FFA Convention in 1965 in Kansas City, and instead of just coming home afterwards, went to Lebanon, MO to meet the relatives. They took me out to the home place, and I asked about the persimmon tree. They pointed it out, and it was full of fruit. I told them I wanted to take some back to Grandma Elsie. The helped me find the greenest ones, that wouldn't get moldy before I got home (Washington).

Took my jar of persimmons to Grandma at the nursing home after I got back. She was pleased. Then I told her, these aren't just any old 'simmons, they're from the very tree you sat in as a kid. I'll never forget watching her cry her eyes out as she ate those 'simmons, 80 some years later.

And my eyes aren't any too dry now either, actually. . .

agpilot · Nov 5, 2010

Hi Mike: That was a very very nice gift you gave your grandmother. A real close and personal gift. Very touching. ..ag

60 acre hillside · Nov 5, 2010

I liked this. The size of a gift is no longer important.

I was in hospital a few years ago and a little girl about 12 or 13 made me a flower from a Kleenex. I forgot to take it with me when I was dismissed. That homade flowere was more precious than anything she could have given.

Chuck (CA) · Nov 5, 2010

Tart and sweet at the same time. Kinda labor intensive. The trick is separating the juice from the seeds. We use a juicer (Jack LaLane) and use the juice for both juice and jelly.
Loaded with anti-toxins.
If you use it for the juice, I recommend putting in some sugar/sweetener in it.
Google some recipes. It tastes great and is VERY good for you.
They sell for 1.00 each in the local grocery stores. We just give them to friends and family.

Don-Wi · Nov 5, 2010

I think the fact that that tree was still standing is amazing. Truely a memory no money could ever buy, and it makes me remember visiting my grandma while she was laid up in a nursing home for a short while. I visited her every day, making up excuses to be in the area. I'd bring a dog with me once & a while and all of the old folks there loved it.

Donovan from Wisconsin

al in ark · Nov 5, 2010

Mike very good story, i think of my grandmother a lot and she could tell some stories built like a fire plug and just as tough. she had a wisdom i'll never see again. al

Anonymous-0 · Nov 5, 2010

Do you like the taste of seeds?

Glenn F.

barn E · Nov 5, 2010

Think we called em "Indian apples" in Detroit.

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