Pomegranates are a wonderful and unusual fruit. The yellow/red thick skinned fruit contains hundreds of sweet but tart, bright red anils which surround the seeds. Originally fro the Persian region, they are grown around the world, but you don’t see very many in suburban gardens. We have one growing in the orchard/chook run and it produces reasonable quality fruit. The only trouble is, the chooks love them as well. You can see them here jumping to get at the seeds

I also have a number of seedlings planted from the seeds I collected from a tree near our house. You can see them on the left in this picture and I am looking forward to growing a number of these to see whether any of them produce similar quality fruit.

I “rescued” the remaining fruit from the tree. The seeds look fantastic with a rich red lustre and are reported to have a number of health benefits and anti-oxidant properties.

I am going to juice them and make some genuine Grenadine. I might even have a go at some alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails such the original versions of “Roy Rogers”, Sea Breeze” and “Shirley Temple”.