Eggplant Black Beauty

Eggplant Black Beauty

  • Features: Tender, tasty, puplish-black fruit. Highly nutritional. Setting the standard for large eggplants, this plant yields about 4 to 6 fruits – however yields more if you keep harvesting. The eggplant turns into a dark black-purple colour when its ready to be picked. Very easy to grow.
  • Maturity: 80 days / eggplants are 20cm (8").
  • Light: Plant in full sun.
  • Soil and water: It is recommended that the soil is enriched with composted manure and time released nutrients. Well drained soil is best.
  • Spacing: Space 45-60cm (18"-24") apart.
  • Height: Plants are 50cm (20") in height.
  • Garden use: Plant in vegetable garden or raised beds.
  • Growing tips: Keeping the plant well watered will sweeten the fruit and prevent the fruit from being bitter.
  • Culinary use: Excellent breaded, fried, stuffed. Can be put on skewers for grilling.
By providing mulch like barrier underneath the plant with hay or shredded leaves it keeps the soil cool, holds in moisture and prevent weeds. If the fruit is picked when under ripe, it can have a bitter taste. A perfect eggplant will stop growing bigger, with a glossy skin and a dust of seeds. An under ripe eggplant will not have seeds and overripe fruits will have dark seeds.

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