EGGPLANT Violet from Florence

Species: Eggplant
Latin name: Solanum Melongena L.
Inscription in the European catalog under: Violette di Firenze - Violette de Florence
Other usual name: Aubergines - Brinjal - Melanzani - Eierfrucht
Variety: Violet from Florence
Family: Solanaceaes
Origin: India, Burma

Hardy perennial, but cultivated in our areas as annual because the plant fears freezing, it is a fruit consumed like a vegetable. Large, heavy, oval fruits which are violet in color. The pulp is fresh and has an exquisite flavor. Use fried, stuffed or in Moussaka.

Seed sowing: From January to Mars
Collect eggplant: From July to September
Height: The eggplant reaches on average 60 cm to 80 cm
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Sowing 1 cm in depth under glass from January to Mars, germination is difficult you better take 2 times more seeds than wanted seedlings, transplant out of cups as soon as the seedlings have 2 leaves and keep them inside air regularly to acclimatize the seedlings, transplant mid-May in place. Don't wait to long to harvest the fruits, big one's are not better.

Sowing distance: 50 cm by 90 cm 
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 20 °C
Seed germination: 6 to 8 days
Nutritional value: 29 Kcal to the 100 gr

Net weight of seeds: 2 gr = + 1000 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.