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My eggplant are coming along.
 
Good looking eggplants too, Cat'!

I'm hoping for a better eggplant/pepper year. It wasn't quite as cold in June 2013 as June 2012 but I think my impatience to get things out got the better of me. Probably averaged 1 eggplant/plant. Grump!

Still haven't seen an eggplant seedling.

Steve
 
HPQ,

Let me just say that I can't imagine you being able to direct-sow eggplant and expect a crop there in "Central MN, Zone 3/4 border."

Hardening off and keeping the bugs off of the plants must be the most difficult things for gardeners. Every bug wants to chew on them and the poor dears are terribly cold-sensitive!

Steve
 
I will plant my seedlings out in the 2nd or 3rd week of May. If I planted store bought seedlings I would not get a very substantial crop because their seedlings would be small compared to mine. The same is true for me with peppers. So a sown seed would not give me any fruit. One thing I have noticed is I get a better crop from a pot grown eggplant.I think it is because the soil temperature is higher in a pot. I still do not usually do this however as I just have too much to keep up with. A pot needs daily watering in the heat of the summer. I used pyrethrum for the bugs.
 
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