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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15 Mar 14, Phil (Australia - temperate climate): Have picked 2 eggplants from my bushes once they turned purple but the remainder of the fruit have turned yellow and seem to be softening. Is this normal?
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22 Apr 14, Alpeshkumar Patel (Australia - temperate climate): Turning yellow means they are now ripe. You can get seeds for next year from them.
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13 Mar 14, Shannon (Australia - sub-tropical climate): My eggplants have a whitish coating over all the stems, that can be scraped off with a fingernail. The top leaves are curling and dying. Does anyone know what this could be? There are no insects on the plants. Thank you!
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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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