Eggplant, Diamond

Eggplant, Diamond

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Solanum melongena

90 days. Most popular heirloom eggplant variety. Vigorous plants will literally be dripping with large dark purple fruits 9” long. Disease resistant, easy to grow eggplant variety which will make you the most generous gardener in the neighborhood!

*This is one of eight varieties we sell that was not grown at Giving Ground Farm, but was grown lovingly by trusted friends.  It comes to us from the non-profit Meadowlark Hearth.

How to grow it:  Start indoors 4-6 weeks before the average last frost date. Seedlings need 8 hours of full light exposure per day. Optimum germination temperature is 65-90 degrees. Transplant after all danger of frost has passed with 24” between plants. Regularly harvest ripe fruits.

Seed specs:  Packet- 20 min.