{"id":14649,"date":"2012-11-02T23:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2012-11-02T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:36:33","slug":"growing-varieties-of-eggplant-solanum-melongena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-varieties-of-eggplant-solanum-melongena\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Varieties of Eggplant -Solanum melongena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4340582358\/\" title=\"Aubegine by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2739\/4340582358_6f29002006.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" alt=\"Aubegine\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Solanum family includes peppers, potato, tomato and even deadly nightshade as well as our aubergine (Eggplant). The small flowers all look similar but the resulting fruit are quite different.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"aubergines\"><\/a>Aubergines Varieties to try<\/h2>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Aubergine &#8216;Antar&#8217; fruit can be dark purple and are a satisfying 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d long<\/li>\n<li>Aubergine \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMoneymaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 produces good, early crops  whether it is grown in the greenhouse, in patio containers or outdoors. The Height and spread is upto 24\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The purple fruit are long and slender with an excellent flavour.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Dwarf Baby Belle F1 should have lots of 2\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fruit on a 20\u00e2\u20ac\u009d plant<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Red Ruffled also more prolific fruit but bitter and used for Asian cookery<\/li>\n<li> \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFlorida High Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Aubergine has an upright branching habit and carries its fruit well off of the ground. The white flesh is delicious grilled, baked or fried.<\/li>\n<li>Aubergine \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcListada de Gandia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 produces a large and early crop of stunning, white streaked, purple skinned, oval fruits up to 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  in length.<\/li>\n<li> There are 15-20 different varieties of eggplant mainly of Asian origin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Eggplants<\/strong><br \/>\nThai long green is one of the modern thin skinned varieties that should grow well in the south of the UK.<br \/>\nDiamond Eggplant is mild with no bitterness and coming from Russia it should thrive in the UK<br \/>\nAubergine &#8216;Black Beauty&#8217; is an heirloom variety worth considering.<br \/>\nAubergine \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcProsperosa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 produces spherical, ribbed, pale purple fruits with firm, flavoursome flesh. This Sicilian heritage variety has a mild flavour and no bitter after taste<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=aubergines\">Aubergines from Thompson Morgan <\/a><br \/>\nRead <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47\">tips for growing Aubergines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4850146712\/\" title=\"Aubergine by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4093\/4850146712_75b272f8e5.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Aubergine\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aubergines or eggplantd comr from many countries including Russia, Thailand, America and Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}