Gardening

Ohiogal

(34,620 posts) Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:31 AM Sep 2019

I finally had some success growing eggplant!

These will go into a Greek one-pot dish along with some tomatoes, rice, garlic, oregano, etc.

The plants got a late start due to all the rain we had in June, but they hung on once July came.

They are Burpee Shooting Stars. My husband started them from seed.

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I finally had some success growing eggplant! (Original Post) Ohiogal Sep 2019 OP

Cool! murielm99 Sep 2019 #1

Aw, thanks! Ohiogal Sep 2019 #2

Beautiful, nice doggie too! I like your use of repurposed shingles for path. Canoe52 Sep 2019 #3

Thanks, Ohiogal Sep 2019 #5

They look great! How did they taste? CaptainTruth Sep 2019 #4

They had a good flavor Ohiogal Sep 2019 #6

What type Rebl2 Sep 2019 #7

These are Burpee Shooting Stars. Ohiogal Sep 2019 #8

recipe? RicROC Sep 2019 #9

Here is the link Ohiogal Oct 2019 #13

The bent stem. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #10

I had to put Ohiogal Oct 2019 #15

Our eggplants were trashed by flea beetles. Repeatedly. Nitram Sep 2019 #11

I have tried growing them several years with no success. Ohiogal Oct 2019 #16

If you're willing lillypaddle Oct 2019 #12

Here is the link Ohiogal Oct 2019 #14

Thanks so much lillypaddle Oct 2019 #17

murielm99

(31,433 posts)

1. Cool!

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:34 PM

Sep 2019

Your doggie is beautiful, too.

Ohiogal

(34,620 posts)

2. Aw, thanks!

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 29, 2019, 02:00 PM

Sep 2019

Canoe52

(2,963 posts)

3. Beautiful, nice doggie too! I like your use of repurposed shingles for path.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 01:13 AM

Sep 2019

Ohiogal

(34,620 posts)

5. Thanks,

Reply to Canoe52 (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 12:44 PM

Sep 2019

Using the shingles was my clever hubby’s idea.

CaptainTruth

(7,213 posts)

4. They look great! How did they taste?

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 08:33 AM

Sep 2019

I tried one plant here in FL, it did ok & then survived hurricanes Matthew & Irma (it just kept growing into a bush in the warm weather) but never produced again. It bloomed but the blossoms fell off, even though I used blossom set.

I haven't tried again.

Ohiogal

(34,620 posts)

6. They had a good flavor

Reply to CaptainTruth (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 12:49 PM

Sep 2019

and weren’t quite as sponge-y as the ones I’ve bought from grocery stores. Definitely will try again next year and hope for not as rainy of a June.

At least in Florida you don’t have to worry as much about frost! Strange that the blossoms fell off your plant. Maybe a beetle? That happened to my cukes one year, a beetle got inside the blossoms and they fell off.