ROUND RED AUBERGINE (TOMATO AUBERGINE) - 1795
(Solanum aethiopicum) This is a close relative of the purple eggplant, round in shape, small in size, and with a beautiful red-orange color due to the increased carotene content during ripening. It is sown in late March, transplanted from the second week of May to mid-June, and harvested in July. They are eaten like common eggplants.
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Family Solanaceae
Sowing: indoors from January to March, depending on the zone and earliness of the variety.
Transplanting: in an 8 cm pot when it is manageable. Outdoors when the soil is warm and there is no risk of frost, with a clod of earth.
Spacings: 70-90 cm between rows, 60-70 cm along the row.
Tips: earth up, possibly tie the plants to a support, remove some of the axillary shoots and pick the fruit before it hardens, therefore still sweet and seedless. Rotate crops for at least 4 years, and do not precede or follow them with species from the same family (tomatoes, eggplants).
Seed required: 3g per 1m2 of seedbed.
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