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Gardening

Retrograde

(10,730 posts) Sun Nov 10, 2024, 08:36 PM Nov 10

Overwintering eggplants?

Although they did produce decently this year, I have two eggplants in the garden that have gone crazy and put out a bunch of blossoms. I've had tomato and pepper plants that overwintered in my yard (although they don't seem to set fruit with the short days) - I'm on the peninsula south of San Francisco - but I've never seen eggplants being so vigorous this late. Are they perchance perennials in their native environments?

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Overwintering eggplants? (Original Post) Retrograde Nov 10 OP

Eggplants can be perennial in the tropics, but their origin point is debated, RockRaven Nov 11 #1

RockRaven

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1. Eggplants can be perennial in the tropics, but their origin point is debated,

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Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:51 PM

Nov 11

so whether the annual or perennial behavior is the natural one I don't know.

You can try to over winter them, but it probably won't work without a lot of active intervention. We only tried once and didn't come close to success. They are damaged by the cold even above frost temps.

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