Gardeners miss several important nuances, due to which they fail to harvest a decent eggplant crop.
To ensure that your baskets are full of “eggplants” in the summer, you need to take into account several growing rules.
Weather conditions
Frosts are fatal for eggplants. The critical temperature is +5 °C. At lower temperatures the plant will die.
Landing time
The vegetable is afraid of frost, but late planting can lead to the fruits not having time to ripen. You can grow eggplants without a greenhouse, but when it gets cold, you need to keep shelters for plantings. For example, five-liter bottles.
Variety
To ensure that eggplants ripen before autumn, you need to focus on ultra-early or early-ripening varieties. Seedlings are sown from late February to mid-March. Everything depends on the vegetation period.
As an option, the hybrid "Ultra-early F1". The weight of the fruits reaches 200-300 g. It can be grown both in a greenhouse and in open ground. However, in the first case, the fruits will ripen faster. In this they can be compared with early ripening tomatoes.
