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Eggplant Growing Guides

Eggplant is a warm-season crop that rewards gardeners with a wide range of shapes, colors, sizes, and culinary uses. Different varieties can have different maturity times and plant characteristics, so choosing a variety and understanding its growing requirements are important parts of planning an eggplant crop.

The eggplant growing guides below are intended to help you learn how to grow the individual varieties listed here. Use them to explore planting, sunlight, soil, spacing, watering, feeding, plant care, common growing problems, and harvesting. Whether you are growing a familiar purple eggplant or experimenting with Japanese, Italian, white, striped, or other specialty types, these guides can help you take the crop from planting to harvest.

African eggplant Bambino eggplant Black Beauty eggplant
Calliope eggplant Casper eggplant Chinese eggplant
Diamond eggplant Dusky eggplant Eggplant
Epic eggplant Ethiopian eggplant Fairy Tale eggplant
Florida Market eggplant Galine eggplant Gretel eggplant
Hansel eggplant Ichiban eggplant Indian eggplant
Indian Green eggplant Indian Round eggplant Japanese eggplant
Japanese Long eggplant Kermit eggplant Listada de Gandia eggplant
Little Finger eggplant Long Purple eggplant Louisiana Long Green eggplant
Millionaire eggplant Nadia eggplant Patio Baby eggplant
Petch Siam eggplant Ping Tung eggplant Rosa Bianca eggplant
Snowy eggplant Thai eggplant Thai Green eggplant
Thai Long Green eggplant Thai Purple eggplant Thai Round Green eggplant
Turkish Delight eggplant Turkish Orange eggplant Violetta di Firenze eggplant
White Beauty eggplant White eggplant

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