How to Grow Eggplant, Growing Eggplant at Home, Eggplant Pest Control

Easy tips for how to grow eggplants when home vegetable gardening. Learn how to plant and care for eggplants; also pest and disease control tips for growing healthy eggplants in your garden.

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Warm season vegetables such as eggplant do not tolerate the slightest hint of frost very well.

That is why you should hold off planting until warm weather has arrived to stay.

In milder climates, choose varieties that withstand cooler temperatures.

We have gathered vegetable gardening information about how to grow eggplant that we hope you will find useful.

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Growing Eggplant at Home

How to Grow Eggplant Tips

Harvesting Eggplant

The final step in how to grow eggplant is about taking careful steps for bringing in the bounty. Follow these guidelines:

Eggplant Pest Control

Flea beetles are the likely suspects if your leaves are so full of holes that resemble lace. These insects are particularly fond of the taste of eggplant.

To control flea beetles, zap them during the cool of the morning using the following homemade insect spray recipe.

Homemade insect spray recipe:

6 cloves of chopped fine garlic

1 small chopped fine onion

1 tablespoon cayenne pepper

1 tablespoon liquid dish soap

For long term protection against insects that are looking for a free lunch, make yellow sticky traps using the following directions.

Paint 1 x 6 inch boards yellow, tack them to sticks, and coat the surfaces with a sticky substance like honey. Then poke the sticks into the soil among the eggplant.

You can also shield your eggplants from invading flea beetles and encourage vigorous plant growth by surrounding them with tomato cages covered with floating row cover fabric.

Disease Control for Growing Eggplants

Tobacco mosaic virus is best known for infecting eggplants and its close relatives in the vegetable garden, tomatoes and peppers.

The plant disease generally arrives on infected plants or containers.

Symptoms include thickened leaves that are mottled with various shades of green, slow growth, and greatly reduced fruit set.

The virus lives in the soil for as long as 5 years.

Look for eggplant varieties that are resistant to tobacco mosaic virus.

You will see a capital T after the variety name in a seed catalog description or garden center plant label.

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