Growing Eggplant, also Aubergine

Solanum sp. : Solanaceae / the nightshade family

Feb	Mar	May
S	S
		T
		P

(Best months for growing Eggplant in USA - Zone 5a regions)

S = Plant undercover in seed trays
T = Plant out (transplant) seedlings
P = Sow seed

Grow in seed trays, and plant out in 4-6 weeks. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 75°F and 90°F. (Show °C/cm)
Space plants: 24 - 30 inches apart
Harvest in 12-15 weeks. Cut fruit with scissors or sharp knife.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Beans, capsicum, lettuce, amaranth, thyme
Avoid growing close to: Potatoes

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26 Nov 14, Greg (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Whitish coating may simply be scale. Lime Sulfur (liquid) will do the job.
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04 Mar 14, Parm (Australia - temperate climate): I plant eggplant late December. My eggplant got flower but not fruit. I see some bees and butterfly in my garden but still I try to do hand pollination. Mostly I use to water every day or other. I live in albany wa
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22 Jan 14, Kezia (Australia - temperate climate): I planted an eggplant last year 2013 July. It has produced quite a lot of fruits since November, but what will happen to the plant from February onwards? The chart on this website about eggplant showing blank (no S or T sign) from February to July?
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21 Dec 13, Renate (Australia - sub-tropical climate): My eggplants are brownish colour not dark like the usual colour what is missing?
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28 Oct 13, Jim Petterson (USA - Zone 7a climate): Is egplant perennial in zone 7a Charlotte NC
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13 Nov 20, CAD (USA - Zone 10b climate): Jim, if grown outdoors, eggplants are annuals in North Carolina. NC gets some tropical-feeling summer weather, but the winter frost and snow would keep eggplant from being a perennial in that climate. It's an annual here in zone 10b too!
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12 Aug 13, bob westport (Australia - cool/mountain climate): how long a life has an egg plant got or is it just an annual plant
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01 Sep 13, indy (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Eggplant is a semi-tropical perennial that's best treated as an annual in temperate or cooler clmates . Unless you've been able to source reliable heritage varieties the best fruit is most likely going to only be had during the first season
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13 Apr 13, Esantoso (Australia - tropical climate): I think it is either they are too old, egg plant is better when they are young. Or fungi disease which cause the fruit to go rotten. Both cases fruit is no longer edible.
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30 Mar 13, chris (Australia - temperate climate): no mater how much we try we always get a worm in our fruit we have sprayed with lebsyd have put lime in the soil we change the patch around do you know what type of worm it is and how to control it
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