Eggplant
Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops
Planting months: April,May,June Spacing: 18-24 inches, rows 2 to 21/2 feet SpecialTips: Needs heat, Cut fruit, don’t pull off stem, stake plants with green bamboo to hold them up, especially Oriental varieties. Harvesting : Fruit should be glossy, filled out, and big enough to eat. Flesh should spring back when you press with thumb. If seeds are brown it’s overripe. Pick often. Recommended Varieties: Asian hybrid Ichiban, Black Beauty, Burpee Hybrid, Rosa Bianca (my favorite), Dusky, Cloud Nine.
NOTE: If you are growing vegetables year-round there will be some carry over of cool-season crops into warm weather, for example artichokes, which can be put in from transplants in March and harvested in June, or globe onions, which are planted from seeds in November and harvested in late May or June, and strawberries which are also planted in November and harvested throughout spring into early summer.