Plump Eggplant (aubergine) In My Organic Garden
Have you tried growing eggplant in your organic garden? They are just as easy to grow as tomatoes… maybe easier. They enjoy the same conditions as tomatoes, capsicum and chillis, because they’re all in the same family.
You can see here that we’re growing in quite sandy soil. They are OK with that as long as the water is kept up to them – especially on hot days – and you fertilize (organically, of course) regularly.
Unfortunately with sandy soils, when you water it leaches the nutrients from the soil, so you need to replace them regularly to keep your plants growing healthily and producing fruit.
Again, they are another vegetable that benefit from a long growing season and won’t tolerate frosts. So plant them in your organic garden as soon as the frosts have passed and the ground has warmed. They’ll reward you with glorious dark fruits for several months.
Happy Organic Gardening, Healthy Living…
Filed under: vegetables on February 10th, 2009
Hi,
like they say in Australia…I am from far far Land of India.Central India.But I am what one would call a neo-convert to Gardening.
I dont know whether I may be able to get a response..but I need guidance.
I have a small patch for growing vegetables.Another decent patch for a front garden,Then outside the house a row for growing fruit trees.
I have a decent size terrace,which I want to use for growing herbs…can you help me get started.
Just now we are in peak summer where the temperature reaches and yes stays at around 43 degrees centegrade.
Rainy season sets in from 15th June to 15th September.
Thereafter autumn and winter which is fairly mild..say 5-8 degrees centegrade.It ends mid January.
Spring ends by February end then it is Summer once again.
I was going through all you have blogged and the pictures enclosed.It makes for amazing stuff.
You are lucky with your blueberries, I planted about 4 bushes last year, I have no had the luck you have with them. I see only one is producing a small crop. I am very disappointed because we eat a lot of blueberries, and I wanted to grow them organically.
Have a great day!