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EGGPLANT – Long Purple
$4.00
785 in stock
If you’ve never tied to grow these elongated, purple-black aubergines, now’s the time to start. A heritage variety from Italy, it has firm, mild-flavoured flesh and bears heavily. An early fruiting variety, it usually produces four or more fruits per plant, and the elongated shape makes it easy to slice. An archaic superstition linked eggplants to insanity, but this plant will just make you crazy about aubergines!
Days to Harvest
70-90 daysPosition/Sunlight
Full SunWatering
MediumPlant Spacing
60cmPlant Height
45-60cmAdditional Features
Easy Care Plants, Edible, HeirloomGrowing Information
How to Sow
Sow your seeds in spring after the last frosts, or get a head start on your crop by sowing in containers about two months earlier. You will only cover them with about 5mm of medium, so keep them moist.
How to Harvest
Pick your eggplants when they are shiny and black. When they lose their shine, they are overripe. Use a pair of scissors or secateurs, and leave a short piece of stem attached to the fruit.
Product Details
| Common Name: | EGGPLANT - Long Purple |
| Scientific Name: | Solanum melongena |
| Seeds Per Packet: | Approx 100 |
| Germination Time: | 350 |
| Days to Harvest: | 70-90 days |
| Position/Sunlight: | Full Sun |
| Watering: | Medium |
| Plant Height: | 45-60cm |
| Plant Spacing: | 60cm |
| Sow Depth: | 5mm |
| Row Spacing: | 120cm |
| Companion Plants: | Beans, Okra |
| Cool Sow: | Sep-Oct |
| Warm Sow: | Jul-Sep |
| Tropical Sow: | Jul-Aug |
| Additional Features: | Easy Care Plants, Edible, Heirloom |
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No idea. Haven’t egg-planted them yet but hot damn can’t wait to get me some aubergine realness up in this patch. I assume 5 stars based on my other orders.
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Sandra D. (verified owner) –
Good germination rate
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Sprouted easily
Daniel K. (verified owner) –
No idea. Haven’t egg-planted them yet but hot damn can’t wait to get me some aubergine realness up in this patch. I assume 5 stars based on my other orders.