eggplant or aubergine
The eggplant is increasingly populair in the
Netherlands and Belgium. It is a fruit with little
taste of itself. Eggplant can only cooked or fried
be eaten.
The lovely flowers of the eggplant.
Some aphids can also be seen.
Growing youre eggplants
Eggplant can only in the cold greenhouse grown,
and then only as a climber. The production is very
similar to that of climbing tomatoes.
To sow youre eggplant seeds a certain
minimum temperature is needed, 17 degrees
at least. So sowing starts in February
and is indoors and is best done in pots .
The eggplant can be placed early May in
the cold greenhouse. Soil temperature in
this greenhouse needs to be above 15 Celsius.
The soil should be fertile,and especially
the potassium need is high.
A ladybug on the leaf of an eggplant.
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The European eggplant is dark purple,
has a white inside and its shape is ovale.
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