Eggplant -Black Beauty (3'POT) Live Plants

Black Beauty Eggplant Seeds are 100% organic and HEIRLOOM variety of Solanum melongena. With its large, drop-shaped fruit, this eggplant is the ideal choice for slicing. Perfect for making eggplant parmesan!

• 80 days from transplanting.
• Light: Full sun
• Fruit size: Up to 8 inches long
• Matures: 80 days
• Plant spacing: 24 to 36 inches apart
• Plant size: 3 to 4 feet tall

Growing Eggplants
Step One
To grow eggplants you need a good hot summer and then need plenty of drainage and hot sunlight. They like the humid and hot days more than other vegetables. Since they are small they are quick to grow with about 10 weeks until harvest time. Once they are ripe the yield tons of fruit. The more sunshine and hot weather you have the better these planets will grow.
You can grow this type of eggplant in a pot if you wish but be sure you have a good potting mix. Prepare the soil before you plant the eggplant seedlings. Plant your seedlings before the hot weather sets in so they will have time to grow. 
As the fruit grows be sure to water the plants at regular intervals so they will keep growing through the autumn as well.

 Trim back large clusters of ripe fruit as the eggplants will start to weight the plants down once they have enough fruit on them. Cut the stem so its short and watch out for the sharp spines on the leaves. Cover plants at night if it gets cool and then take this off once the sun comes out again. Use insecticide to control pests.