My Pomegranates Exploded...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- I was out in Colorado visiting Botanical Interests and it RAINED, which burst my prized pomegranates. Such a bummer. Tried to save them and tackle a few other chores around the homestead!
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All in favor for another spicy q&a with them peppers to warm up the crew for the holidays, say “Aye”. 😂
Great idea!!
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Not wasted. We always wait for ours to begin splitting before picking. They are much sweeter then.
Yep, surprised he didn't know that already. Don't think they split like tomatoes either.
They split when they are ripe.
Us too!
My grandmas tree was like 50 when it got cut down. My gosh it was a dense forest towering against the fence. You didn’t want to get too close! The fruit would drag tall branches that normally stuck straight up nearly to the ground. It was incredible and just left to explode for decades. So much fruit. Just.. a lot of spiders at the base.
This is my 10th year of a vibrant pomegranate free... I actually WAIT until my poms burst to harvest them. #1 - I am sure they are ripe, #2 - they are much easier to open/seed with a crack in the peel. I then get all the arils out by submerging the fruit in a huge bowl of water. This avoids pomegranate juice squirting across the room onto my white walls. The arils sink. Once I have a "batch" I drain them in a collander, give 'em a good rinse, and bag them into freezer bags. I freeze them because the arils do not survive a freeze-thaw cycle. This makes juicing 1000% easier. I then make pomegranate syrup (aka Grenadine), pomegranate sorbet, etc. MANY, MANY years of experimenting.
I learned one particularly awful year to wait until they crack... all that didn't crack open were rotten inside. Suuuuper gross. Good luck!
Not only can you make your own pomegranate juice, but you can also make your own figgy pudding for the holidays. I am living vicariously through your garden.
Our pomegranates are huge this year because of all the rain we had in San Diego. Occasionally they do split, but just harvest them and process and they are usually just fine. We pick a bucketful at a time eating some fresh and freezing the rest. Our harvest is usually done over a months time as different sides of the tree ripen sooner depending on the sun. We eat them almost every day all year long, in smoothies, on salads, and on oatmeal, or just as a snack. After processing so many you will appreciate why they are so expensive in the stores!
Good tip!!!
My Pom is 6 ft high. Had a very poor year. Only got 5 and usually get 20+. I look forward to the pruning episode. I am in Long Beach, Ca.
My father in law always waited until the pomegranates burst before he would pick. So not waisted. 😊
Butter is an introvert ok, leave her alone. She has a rich inner life!
😂
Hopefully things dont fall apart now that Eric is gone
When I was young like about 10, we had pomegranate trees, we had kumquat trees. We had all kinds of trees that are now like so popular and back then it was like nothing. We had them giant pecan trees, and real long ones in the mulberries made giant mulberry trees and elderberries. They still grow in my backyard, wild…crazy I guess our parents and grandparents knew a lot that we didn’t know back then I don’t think trees to all over the place loquat trees, and we just had so many trees that we didn’t really appreciate or I didn’t at that age but now I do
I would love to see you shape a fig! Ours always sprawls and it’s huge! Even after our hard freeze last winter. It’s about 12 feet tall and 20 feet wide. The squirrels get all of them but I’m okay with that they don’t touch anything else in the garden
Pomganates
My grandmother had a tree for years and after she passed my Dad got cuttings.
When she had it, it never grew alot of fruit and they were small.
He accidently found what it loved the most.
...and its ashes from the barbeque pit so he thought
...he planted it next to the sewer pipe and it messed the pipe up but no one knew what it was up to, so it grew into a monster with lots of huge fruit until his pipes got clogged one winter and he found out and then we all found out why it was so full of fruit all the time.
Yikes!
It was exposed to bleach and all kinds of detergents and still grew.
Flourished mind you!!!
Beautifully!!!
It was never watered but from rain and the sewer pipe and they do bust if you don't catch them in time.
Did you know that you can make natural dyes out of pomegranate skins/rinds and avocado pits? Pom skin comes out yellow. Avocado pits come out pink.
I did, but I have to try it myself!
Those pomegranates are just ripe. Not wasted at all. I remember picking and eating them at my grandparents house. The best ones were split open. Can’t grow those here in Idaho. The ones at the grocery store just don’t compare.
My dad has a few pomegranate trees. Since I nearly cut my fingee off shucking barrels and barrels and barrels of them for freezing or juicing, I kind of am OK never seeing a pomegranate again in my life. I bet you'll get there eventually, blessing or a curse lol
Ouch!
Looking forward to the fig pruning episode. Our fig is in need of a prune once it goes dormant.
Avoid letting the sap stay on your skin ❤
Hilling up avocados is not necessary if you plant it in an area with good drainage. They like sandy loam soil. The important thing I learned from Gary of Louie’s nursery is to not add any organic material in the hole when planting, including compost. You can amend the soil but with inorganic stuff like sand, perlite, etc.
Pomegranates naturally split when they're fully ripe. 🙂
I've had a pomegranate inground in Christchurch New Zealand for 6years haven't had a flower stick around to fruit yet ,it does flower every year. I'm guessing I've foolishly left it unpruned it is very bushy. Look forward to seeing your pruning tips. Thanks.
ooohhh😍your garden & fruit trees have grown amazing since you planted them!❤
sometimes i wish i could have a fall garden because i'm having such a hard time getting any harvests from the short growing season here (other people can manage it, but i'm struggling)
then i remember warm winters means hot summers, which i can't handle, so i guess i'll just keep working at it
in fact, i'm hoping on moving further north
Yuppers. Poms hate that damp, rain. Like that dryness oddly.
hi kevin!!! you have to add boron in the spring for the pomegranates!! it is a deficiencie!!
Good to see you again, Eric! 😂❤
Just some friendly advice since I’m a concrete guy you reminded me of something when you mentioned your post not binding in cement. If you ever put a wood post in cement make sure the post is covered with some kind of tar paper and also sticking below the level of the bottom of the concrete I’d the post is completely sealed in concrete (the bottom and all) then water can’t escape the post and your post will rot super fast due to constantly being water logged rather than gravity being able to leach the water underneath and out into the ground. Food for thought you teach me so much so I wanted to return the favor. Don’t trap the bottom of your wood posts in concrete. Just the sides.
Love that you keep adding solid products to your line! Can't wait to try the new pots.
Glad you like them!
Loving the vlog style content. I really enjoy seeing what true epic homesteading looks like.
While cleaning, found a packet of Botanical Interest seeds from 2016. Warms my heart.
We've had burst pomegranates here at our house too. At least until this year when the hurricane knocked the tree over. 😅
Pom can split in hot weather or very wet weather, when they are getting ripe. When I see some splitting is when I really pay attention to them. Split ones that have not dried too much or gotten eaten too much, I will juice immediately. Otherwise, I try to wait until they are beyond bright red - they get some brownish spots. That is when they are really ripe. I leave them on the tree as long as I can.
Then I use one of those big handled citrus juicers to juice them and freeze them in bottles or ice cubes. I really like them as ice cubes. They do not fully freeze, so they are great with a small bit of water. My trees cannot keep up with my pom juice eating! I had so many this year, I loved it. I still have two bags for processing, then it is wait until next year.
I do need to trim my trees a bit. Hopefully not to much because I really want lots of fruit. i do keep the trees short enough for me to pick though.
Addendum: I juice mine using one of those big citrus juicers with the big handles. You mostly see those in bars to juice their citrus. I cut the poms in 1/2 and put a slit in them. If they are very big (you can tell when you try to juice them), then cut in quarters. I cannot believe how much I adore pom juice.
I just use a big knife to cut the pom in half. Oh yeah, in preparation, I wear an apron and cover the area with some kitchen towels and also put a towel around the area where the pom will be crushed. You will know when you do it. It keeps the splash to a mininum.
I love all your videos, the homestead, main channel, and Jacque's as well. I have been watching for a few years, and you were my inspiration
to start my own gardening channel.
When our Pomegranate trees grew in Texas, they were always cracked because of infrequent rain. But as long as they’re not moldy inside, they’re still good!
We have ‘Wonderful’ (the standard store-bought) and ‘Salavatski’ (pink arils) pomegranate varieties. 😋
How do the pink ones taste?
Yep, my pomegranates split this year too. I’m thinking the rain we had in august, plus November, is the culprit. We have a huge tree, usually the poms are huge too, not so much this year. And they split before they’re even ripe. So I’m making jelly with them now - doesn’t matter if the juice is tart. hopefully there will be some left unsplit by the time they actually ripen to eat out of hand.😂
I’m looking forward to the fig pruning video. I was given a free fig tree this summer. I have no idea what kind it is and I live in a very cold climate so it’s living in a 22” pot now. I let it stay on the porch to drop it leaves and go dormant this fall but then had to bring it in as we hit the teens in temperature. And now I don’t know what to do 😂 The warmth of the house hasn’t caused it to break dormancy yet. I hope I didn’t jack up its schedule too much but I didn’t know what else to do with the fella.
Just a thought about the koi. They may have been warming up in the sunlit shallow. How warm/cold is the water? I would be tempted to test the deepest shaded part and the shallow sunny areas for the range. I know it doesn't get that cold where you are but maybe with extra rainfall and shorter days?
Beautiful garden and work as always btw.
Mine too Kevin. I live about 2 hours North of you. Between the Pomegranates exploding and the birds picking at them, I lost more than half of my harvest this year.
Leave my Butta alone! She's an independent chick! lol ;) LOVE the dried peppers! Never knew Poms would explode!!?? Great job at cutting! They look so good! :) Satsumas look awesome! What a harvest! Koi are beautiful. Great new pots! Can't wait to order! Love my other ones! I want those pitcher plants! lol Keep trying with the "Fobcat"! lol
Will do!
Every month please give a full tour of Evey plants I love watching them and harvesting
Not sure if anyone has brought it up yet, but you can save and dry those pomegranate peels, boil them, and make a natural dye out of them. It comes out as a sort of ocher-ish color. Natural dyers love the crap out of it (I know this in the, "Well of course I know him. He's me!" sort of way.) Natural dyeing....what a hell of a rabbit hole to go down. 😅
I'll try this!
I tried it and the cloth came out a lemony yellow. Gorgeous. And avocado pits come out pink. What do you use for mordant?
Love the dried peppers!!!!
Doh!! I went out a few weeks ago and there were feathers everywhere!! I thought for sure something got in and killed one of my Buff girls. But there wasn't any blood or body parts, so after a day or so, I didn't think much of it. Molting makes so much more sense!😆 First time chicken mom, so I'm way behind in the information stage.
Kevin! Love all the inspirational garden work yall do! We also love ordering from your seed company! Would yall ever consider growing or selling horseradish?
Looking into it!
Love you Eri….Kevin. ! Can’t wait to see what projects start for next season.
❤ seeing you talk to us about the chickens, your orchard, the pond, and the back garden!!! It is an overcast fall day in middle Georgia, so seeing your beautiful garden and blue sky made me smile! Have a great Thanksgiving week, Kevin!!🎉
Enjoyed watching ..love the pond .
I was asking about the 5 inch pot when it made an appearance on the other channel you appeared on! Need to get some of those for sure.
Did you clear out your strawberry raised bed? Kinda interested in that. And I don't remember if you had any pineapple this time around. I got mine to finally fruit after 3 years.
Yeah swapped them to the GreenStalk!
Kevin, this year half of my Pomegranates where rotten and the other half exploded too!
How do you eat a satsuma with olive oil and cinnamon? I'm so confused
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mr. Kevin: Do you ever plan on adding some nuts/ Nut trees??? We had Almond tree growing up, pretty fun till the parrots ate it. Lol. And a macadamia nut tree which was ridiculous. Tasty tho.
Macadamia would be amazing
@@epichomesteading It's a pretty good shade tree I think ours was 40 ft but that was maybe like 35 years old. It's fairly easy to grow and can endure some heat. The leaves are annoying they have a small point on them. It attracts a ton of bees when it's flowering you mean you could get tons of honey if you had a honey boxes.
You can eat the cracked poms you can also feed your chooks they love them
Hope you enjoyed your stay in our beautiful state - unusually mild weather this fall although that will change on Thanksgiving. Many of the nurseries around here already carry BI seeds because it is a local company.
Gorgeous out there! Looking at property...
we mix it with a bit of rose water , and eat it like a treat
Never sen pomegranates do that before. Figs well what can I say my tree before I cut it down was 6 foot tall at least but in the wrong spot but it lives on in about 60-80 cuttings. It was prolific that last summer with about 100 fruit but considering it was on top of the earthquake damaged sewer line to 4 joined units and in a space about the same size of Kevin's previous homestead's front garden it had to go.
The camera quality of this video was exceptional
GoPro!
Not sure if you have them, but in OC we used to see Mangos and Banana trees time to time.
Thanks for the tour. I'm going to prune my bananas this spring, I got a small bunch last year. Happy Thanksgiving.
Back at you!
Love all the videos and information. But have you put out a pomegranate pruning video?
I would not use deep litter in that set up. That method is best when done directly on the ground and when nesting boxes are higher than the deep litter.
Eric Homesteading ❤❤❤ didnt knew about this second channel until the last Epic Gardening video
Edit: love u and your work Kevin!! Thanks for everything
ooohhh your chillis drying out look amazing!!! Im so excited2 have my pommegranite fruitvall the way until ripe! I get many smallbfruits every year, then my dog eats them.
Your pond looks great Kevin! That new Epic 16 cell is the fit! Gonna run over and order some for me and my dad
Love pomegranates wish we could grow them here
Wonder which climate is best for gardening? Obviously not arctic. But pros and cons of the others? Random question sorry
When you do the next video about pomegranates, could you also talk about ways to get rid of leaf footed demons?
What do you expect you might sow in those 16-cell trays? Looking forward to fig and pom videos because I have them both to deal with soon.
Peppers for me! When starting a ton of varieties
My mouth was watering watching you open the pomegranate. Yes they dont need a lot of water. You can ignore them and they still give you fruit.
I guess you could say that those pomegranates were “pome-grenades”
Can you do a video on planting pomegrante and avocadoes in comtainers please
Fabka!! You should document that journey. That would make a great Collab with Dodo. “Gardening TH-camr befriends stray cat” would be a great story and would bring a ton of new eyeballs to the channel and brand 😎
That’s exactly how I open pomegranates
Just curious what Plant Hardiness Zone do you live in?
10b
Pomegranates are still good. When they split, they are the sweetest.
So good!
All of mine split and fell to the ground and have been ravaged by birds. 😭😭
How do you make pomegranate molasses?
Trajín and lemon or lime with pomos ❤❤ufff
The yellow dragonfruit in the background looks nice.
I hope the seeds are still good though.
Pomegranates not from the store? Fabulous!
Can't beat it!
I’d love to grow pomegranates - what zone are you in? I’m 6 a, are there hardy varieties for my zone? Thank you
Are you soil and tissue sampeling to find defficiancies so this does not happen again now?
Why not use the rainwater to fill the pond?
He does. The hose comes from his cistern, not the house.
@@loverlyredhead Oh
Here's the question we need you to answer.
Do you eat or spit out the pom seeds?
I just chew the seeds and swallow
Spitooey 😙💦
Spit!
Thinking of getting a Gozney dome, what do you think about it now that you’ve had it for a bit?
Absolutely love it
For me pomegranates are like reverse sunflower seeds. They are good on the outside but spit the inside out... do you eat the seeds and all?
I spit them out!
@@epichomesteading Awesome! Happy to know I'm not the only one!
💚 Thanks for answering! 💚
I juice mine and freeze the juice into ice cubes. I can eat those all day long everyday. They freeze in a soft way so very nice to eat. I juice mine using one of those big citrus juicers you see in bars. I cut the pom in half, quarters if very large. If in half, I also put a slit in the middle. Very easy to juice then in the citrus crush juicer.
Buttah, are you too good for your home???!? Insert Happy Gilmore screaming at his golf ball.
Dude my olive egger is molting at this time also,, she looks so miserable😁
My chickens LOVE pomegranates!!! Crack 'em open and let them have at it!!
Mine went to TOWN!
My pomegranate after 2 years, still not bloom or fruits, what is wrong?
Pomegranates can also be "espaliered", not sure about "figs"
I need those 16-cell trays!!
They're coming soon!
Sorry to hear that.
KEVIN. Use PPE when dealing with excrement! Atleast a HEPA mask and possibly goggles
Kevin! 😍
the craziest part of this video is that he did it wearing a whiteish sweater.
Mr. Sucio how do.i apply for a.Job at Botanical Interest do I qualify I love gardening and kinda geek out on it Jaha Need a Job in the 619 I hate my office Job it's too boring for me now...
Mr. Sucio!?
@epichomesteading Jaha you said you're little homies called you Sucio for Sliding around Bases before it was Baseball right...Anyways keep Banging Homes don't stop Growing and keep it 619 Baybeeh...
can i buy seeds on your website
Don't pick the pomegranates until they actually crack open. This is how you know they are ripe
Lookin good, Eric!
😂😂
Oh yeah!
My pomegranates taste like peanut butter? (location Hawaii). Why?