There are two things that I love about eggplant. First, is the beauty eggplant adds to the garden with their beautiful fruits and blooms. Second, is making Eggplant Parmesan. A friend shared her recipe with me, and the link is included as part of this post. Read on to learn about how to successfully grow eggplant in your garden.
Eggplant is a warm-season annual that can either be started from seed or purchased as transplants. Eggplant, also known as aubergine, is part of the Solanaceae family. In addition, the Solanaceae family includes tomatoes, peppers and potatoes. This is an important fact because you should not plant any crop from the Solanaceae family in the same garden bed for two to three years. Rotating crops will reduce disease.
Eggplant comes in several varieties with the most common being a glossy black-purple, egg-shaped fruit that grows six to eight inches long. Lovely lilac color flowers form on the eggplant from which the fruit will grow. In addition, eggplant is mostly self-pollinated by wind and can also be pollinated by bees. In my experience, bees love eggplant flowers. Finally, eggplant is native to China and India
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
Thomas Jefferson
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