All About Growing Eggplant

By Barbara Pleasant
Published on October 30, 2012
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Eggplant may be purplish-black, white or all shades in between — some eggplant varieties even bear orange or green fruit.
Eggplant may be purplish-black, white or all shades in between — some eggplant varieties even bear orange or green fruit.
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Become a culinary star by learning how to cook eggplant in caponata, ratatouille and baba ghanouj.
Become a culinary star by learning how to cook eggplant in caponata, ratatouille and baba ghanouj.

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Growing eggplant is easy where summers are long and warm. Where summers are short, varieties that mature quickly and produce medium to small fruits can easily be grown in containers. If you grow peppers, you can grow eggplant. The fruits may be purplish-black, white or all shades in between — some varieties even bear orange or green fruits.

Eggplant Varieties to Try

Eggplant varieties differ in size, shape, color, growth habit and even maturation time.

Oval to oblong eggplants produce the large, oval-shaped, purplish-black eggplants seen in most supermarkets. Most varieties produce best in warm climates.

Japanese eggplants mature faster than oval eggplants, producing numerous long, slender fruits.

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