Pictures of eggplant stir up gardeners' interest

Eggplant pictures always look delicious and not only if the picture shows a vegetable dish, but also the fresh vegetable itself, with its smooth, shiny skin, green tail and inverted crown on the “butt” of the eggplant.

Unfortunately, eggplants are not easy to grow; they have some peculiarities that gardeners and summer residents may experience difficulties with.

In order to grow a good harvest of eggplant, so that pictures of eggplant become real fruits on your table, you need choose the right variety, in our latitudes these are: F1 Behemoth, F1 Baikal, F1 Valentina, F1 Bonika. These varieties are distinguished by yield, taste and some endurance.

Eggplants are grown through seedlings and it is important that the seedlings are strong and planted in the ground on time; if the seedlings are planted late with already dried out and damaged roots, then it is unlikely that it will be possible to grow a crop.

It is best to choose the time to sow seeds for seedlings in early March, so that in early May, when you need to plant the seedlings in a high, warm bed, the seedlings are about 60 days old. The substrate for seedlings must be disinfected; soil from the garden should not be used. The mixture is made from sawdust and peat, and diluted liquid fertilizer is added. You should not sow all the seeds in one pot, as eggplants have delicate roots and can easily be damaged when removing plants for replanting, so plant each seed in a separate small pot.The seeds are placed on the soil, lightly watered with water and sprinkled with a little soil mixture, covered with film and placed where the temperature is not lower than 25 degrees. As soon as the seedlings appear, the pots should be moved to where there is most light. After the first true leaves appear, the seedlings are “transferred” into larger pots (about 12 cm in diameter) and shaded so that the seedlings take root well.

You need to water the seedlings with warm water., in which fertilizers are diluted, making sure that the soil is not too wet or dry.

A good seedling is one that already has ten leaves, looks strong and has no signs of disease.. The right time to plant seedlings is when the soil is no colder than 20 degrees Celsius and the threat of frost has passed.