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EGGPLANT

  • BLACK BEAUTY– 75-80 days, Heirloom OP, Classic
    This 1902 Burpee introduction has perfect fruits earlier than other varieties. It soon became the classic farmers market and garden standard for eggplants, delicious grilled, baked, or fried. Broad, lustrous, purplish-black, egg-shaped 4” to 6” diameter (up to 2 lb) fruits are borne well off the ground on 18 to 24” plants; the skin is tender, so no need to peel it.
  • BLACK SHINE – 65 days, Hybrid, Asian
    This very attractive Japanese hybrid eggplant has long fruit with black skin.  The glossy fruits have tender, sweet, bitter-free high-quality flesh and grow over 8 inches long, weighing over 8 oz. Upright plants are early and prolific producers.  Recommended for container, home garden and greenhouse growing.
  • DIAMOND – 70 days, Open-pollinated, Classic. SeedSavers Exchange collected this prolific, best-selling eggplant from Ukraine in 1993. Known for green-tinted flesh with excellent mild, non-bitter flavor and fine, creamy texture, the long dark purple 9” x 3” fruits are borne in clusters of 4 to 6 on 2’-tall, healthy plants. Yield is often equal to hybrids.
  • GALINE – 72 days, F-1 Hybrid. Classic. Very early, dependable Italian-style eggplant with mild, creamy-fleshed, glossy black fruits averaging 1 lb.
  • LISTADA DI GANDIA –  80-90 days. Spanish Heirloom
    Stunning, sweet, mild, thin-skinned, never-bitter eggplants on heavy-yielding plants to 14” tall. The beautiful purple and white striped 8” oval fruits have firm texture for breading and frying for classic Italian and Spanish dishes and Indian curries. They don’t require salting to extract liquid or bitterness; thrives in hot weather and in greenhouses.
  • ORIENT EXPRESS – 58 days, F-1 Hybrid. Asian.
    A very dependable, very early and very adaptable variety, with tender, mild-flavored, never bitter, quick-cooking flesh. High-yielding plants produce armloads of attractive, slender, glossy fruits 8-10” long x 1 ½ – 2 ½” diameter. Ready up to 2 weeks before many other varieties, and sets fruit in cool weather and under heat stress. Can do well in containers.
  • PINGTUNG LONG – 65 days, OP, Asian.A prolific Chinese eggplant with slightly curved, glossy bright purple fruit with tender, sweet, bitter-free flesh; steady yield and can bear as many as 20 fruits each; resistant to bacterial wilt. Its color is especially attractive if harvested at 9” long and 1.5 to 2” wide., as skin darkens as it matures.
  • PURPLE COMET – 70 days from transplant, hybrid, Asian-type.
    Big yields of long-fruited Asian type eggplant; fruits can reach 10” long and 1.5 to 2” diameter. The firm white flesh is bitter-free, seed development is slow, and the rich violet skin is thin and tender.  Plants are robust, with extra-large, tropical-looking foliage and showy purple flowers, and beautiful purple fruits.
  • PURPLE PICKLING -90 days from transplant, OP, Italian.
    This pear-shaped Italian heirloom variety is traditionally used to make eggplant relishes like Caponata, but is equally suited to grilling, roasting, and baking and stewing. Fruits up to 8″ long are borne in abundance on purple-stemmed, thornless plants.
  • ROSA BIANCA – 80-85 days, Heirloom OP, Italian.
    A lovely Sicilian heirloom with rosy pink fruit streaked with white and violet. Plump, rounded and slightly fluted 5-6” fruits have mild, creamy flavor, no bitterness and few seeds. Perfect for slicing, baking, roasting. Good yields.