For the 8 last years I've not been able to harvest any pomegranates for one reason or another. Usually what happens is that the 13 foot high, 10 foot across tree puts out flowers, a big wind comes along and knocks all but a handful of blooms off. those remaining start to develop but before they even get to half the size they
should be, they are cracked open on the tree, not red inside at all and the whole tree is covered in a variety of flying beetles, and in many cases those beetles are all over/inside the remaining
fruit....
This year during the winter i weeded under the tree, got rid of all of the tree's competition which i had not realized it had so many things under it competing with it.. i threw most of my winter's produce scraps under the tree trying to help build better soil for it. Just yesterday I was under it weeding again and i planted about 150 onion and garlic bulbs under it in the hopes to discourage bugs as well as fertilized it with organic fertilizer.. The tree has never looked so healthy, nor has it ever bloomed as much as it is right now. I'd guess it has between 300 and 400 blooms on the tree right now and about 100 that have already just fallen off without turning into fruit...
So What I'm asking is if there is more I can do to both help my tree keep it's blooms and help keep beetles away so the fruit actually make it to full ripeness. o_o