Welcome to the wonderful world of Eggplantsyes in today's episode we gonna seeEggplants. . . lots of types of eggplants.
You're gonna see the black beauty.You're gonna see the Japanese eggplant and alsothe wonderful great tasting white eggplantsso there we are all - all types of eggplants right here for youso let's get started. So to successfully grow good eggplantsyou need a few things .
You need nice, warm weathereggplants thrive in warm weather so late spring, summeryou know excellent time to plant eggplants.
They do very well in containers you cansee it right herethis one's a black beauty eggplant growing in a containerhere are some more tips on growing eggplantsjust like tomatoes, eggplantswill love low nitrogen fertilizersthey just like phosphorous and potassium rich fertilizersyou can go organic you can get all the organic fertilizers that you likeyou'll see some links in the video description belowbut do not feed them a lot of nitrogen as all you're gonna end up with isgetting big huge green leaves and not many eggplantshere's one more trip - in the growing seasonevery 15 to 20 days give some .
Epsom salt solution to your eggplantsit'll make them thrive.
So let's start harvesting some eggplants from thesecontainersonce again these are the black beauty varietiesthe black beauties is one of the easiest varieties to grow here in the United States in california's zone nine and depending on where you areyou might wanna find the best variety to grow locallyin my experience the best produce that you canget out of your garden is by growingvarieties that thrive locallythe black beauty is a pretty popular variety though and it's very easy to getseeds in any garden storeor you can just get the plants and plant them in your gardennow let's take a look at some other eggplant varieties.
Now this is a whisky barrel container and I'm growing three varieties ofplants in the same whiskey barrel.
One is a black beauty that we just sawin the beginning of this video there's also a .
Japanese variety - the Japaneseeggplant that you see right hereand then there's also a white eggplant that's also in the same barrelso as you can see here these ,Japanese eggplants are ready for harvestso the are two nice eggplants full-bodiednot as much full-bodied as a black beauty but still packs quite a volumeso here you see a harvest bowl. It has a lot of black beauty eggplants that washarvested in a dayas well as some .
Japanese eggplantsso now the come to the most interestingnext a variety of eggplant - the white eggplant!Now white eggplants grow similar tothe other eggplant varieties we saw.
In fact one is going in the same whiskey barrel as the othertwo varieties of eggplants. The white eggplants of course look whitevery different from the regular eggplanks.
Now as far as taste goes, white eggplants have a nicerich creamy taste to them It's very different from the regularthe purple eggplants that you see and you'll be amazed at the flavor youshould try it out if you haven't tried out white eggplant, you should try it outits got a very different creamy kind of flavorand just like other eggplants, white eggplants will keep producingthroughout the season.
Very easy to growyou must try it out if you haven't tried growing it alreadyso that's all we have for you in this episodeI hope you enjoyed watching all the different varieties of plantsand I'm sure you'll give it a shot growing all varietiesHappy Gardening!.
