Aubergine story
20Sunday 28 June, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Growing aubergines has always been a bit of a hit n miss affair with us. Although I have to say, last year we finally seem to have cracked it. This year seems well on track; all things crossed!
Rotating areas each year is apparently important for this crop – so we comply with that. Sweetcorn were here last summer, although they did absolutely nuffink last season. Here are our seedlings four weeks after planting out.
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That weird hail storm that struck in early May damaged many of the leaves.
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But these are hardy plants. Once they get established, there is little that troubles them, providing they get water every 4-7 days.
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One month later.
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A good sign was the bee activity around the flowers.
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And now we have the first aubergines; harvestable in 7-10 days.
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And a first this year, we also have round aubergines. They should grow to large grapefruit size; perfect for stuffing 🙂
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I have eggplant envy! Mine take forever to grow … must be a lot warmer over your way spike!
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Me thinks you are correct there…
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Your eggplants look terrific! I wish mine were doing as well.
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Took 5 years of failure before ours worked though. Live n learn!
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Rotated, check. Strong plants, check. Flowers, check. Bees, check. Tiny holes appearing in leaves, not pleased. Used commercial organic veggie dust. Fingers crossed. Suggestions?
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Red spider make tiny holes…. spraying is the only answer with them. I usually get away with spraying just twice a season; this crop is a nightmare without
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THX, on the to do list!
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Good for you….I’m still working on being successful when it comes to aubergines! Lettuce I can do but I’m not so lucky when it comes to veggies.
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Lots and trial and error basically. Mostly its goat poo, watering and weather.
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Looking good! Next tell us how your corn is doing. My sweet corn was sprayed and killed. Drift from the ditch company…sucks. I now have no sweet corn for the year. Since it was drift all we got was oh-sorry.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
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😦 That’s a post on it’s way soon Linda, later this week I think.
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Wow amazing vegetables. Are the considered night shades?
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Not that I know of…
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Aubergine? Around here that’s an eggplant! Always wondered why they were called that. Thousands of American kids would probably eat them if they were called aubergines sounds so exotic.
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Haha, yep. What a daft name, Eggplant though, always thought that 🙂 Here we call them Patlıcan (Pat-ler-jann)
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congratulations with the aubergines! I love ’em too but didn’t plant any this year … we have had (pretty much) no rain in Vancouver for the past two months!!
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That sounds unusual for Vancouver!
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it is! the ‘Wet Coast’ is turning into California (which is a state in a state of drought!) 🙂
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😦
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actually, if you could use the emoticon with a tear instead … at least, I could get *some* moisture! 😀 😀 😀
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