Outdoor Eggplant 2012

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This year's eggplant gets a pot. Until I acquire a family of 8 to feed, I'm not growing an eggplant in a growbox again. Though it did get a big pot, and a half-growbox nute strip. The transplant was about 6 weeks old.

Harvests: 22 (first ~7/28, small, but I needed it for ratatouille) - ended 10/6

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Sun, 2012/10/07 - 8:12pm

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Terminated the eggplant

Terminated the eggplant yesterday. One fruit turned yellow at a pretty small size. I decided that meant it wasn't really growing anymore. At any rate, I've eaten enough eggplant.

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Tue, 2012/08/14 - 5:46pm

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Eggplant suddenly got huge,

Eggplant suddenly got huge, and it's getting busy with the fruit development. Leaves look kinda bugged. That's OK. They taste good.

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Thu, 2012/08/02 - 11:08am

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I grew eggplant in a growbox

I grew eggplant in a growbox last year and got way too many for me to eat. Thus the more constrained pot this year.

Depends what variety of eggplant you grow. Fairy Tale is a small round bush, easy in a large pot. Most are bigger, like 24"-48" tall. They're fairly stocky, but could use a stake for support. Not a really a vine.

The growboxes are PVC plastic, I believe. Safe enough.

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Thu, 2012/08/02 - 2:30am

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Beth, did you start them in

Beth, did you start them in the Aerogarden and then transfer to an earthbox? I don't think they were in anything I got so I figure you planted seeds yourself. Are these like a bush or do they need to grow on a trellis? i don't have an earthbox but a smaller thing similar to one and with a plastic trellis at one side of it so I can gorw things up. I got a number of pots at Dollar General in plastic though and plan to plant in that. Wonder if I should have been more cautious because of plastic leeching. I didn't think of that. I was just looking at something large enough to put a Meyer lemon in and some other trees and plants. but an earthbox is plastic, too isn't it or is that vinyl?

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Thu, 2012/08/02 - 2:26am

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Why are you not going to put

Why are you not going to put eggplant in a grow box but rather in a pot? Did you get too many? Or were they just too small? I plant to plant some in FL this winter if you can call it that. It is our growing season. I plan to have eggplant parmesan with marinara sauce.

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Wed, 2012/08/01 - 3:31pm

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We've had some gorgeous

We've had some gorgeous cool-for-July weather, and the eggplant's setting more fruit. Not ripening them very fast... but I picked one undersized for ratatouille anyway.