Up here in Austin on the edge of the plateau, I haven’t noticed issues from soil — poms seem to grow fine in my native, "extremely stony clay" (as described by the soil survey for Travis Co.) or in that nasty red clay contractors bring in as fill.

Currently, my inground plants are both in the ...

I've read pomegranates grow in just about any soil so I planted 2 pomegranates (Salavatski and Parfianka) directly in my Texas Blackland Clay soil here in San Antonio. Three years later there was zero growth on the plants so I pulled them out. It took no effort at all since I found out the roots did ...