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Eggplant. Difficult to grow
and not recommended for beginners, but it provides the cook with
a fruit for several superb dishes. Eggplant is highly sensitive
to its environment. It is definitely a warm-weather plant, needs
a long growing season of 100 to 140 days, with high average temperatures
both day and night, a soil well warmed before it can be set outdoors,
and most careful attention to disease and insect control.
Although eggplant requires very fertile
soil, use of fresh manure or big quantities of commercial fertilizer
is not advisable. It is recommended that the soil used is that which
has long been treated well, and a few plants will bear many fruits.
Florida High Bush, Black Beauty, Fort Myers Market, and. New Hampshire
Hybrids are common varieties. Seed should be sown in hotbed or green
house.
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