Tips for growing eggplants

Eggplants have value due to their qualities. Not every gardener can boast a good crop of eggplant. So you need to know practical advice, helping everyone to collect a large harvest of these vegetables.

The main drawback in the cultivation of eggplant is considered to be rich they need the warmth at all stages of maturation. The best harvesting is obtained in the greenhouses, and when growing outdoors you need to choose a Sunny, windless, highly fertilized plots.

Planting of eggplant is produced in boxes of 4 planks on top covered with a glazed frame. With the growth of the vegetables gradually rise, and when they start to get to glass, you need a frame to lift the bars and the planks to leave the place. The rate of growth of eggplant frame need to pry up several times to continue their development under the roof.

For seedlings of eggplant start to plant from February to early March in boxes when the air temperature is around 22oC. The best option would be their placement to the stage of the formation of sprouts on the windowsill on the South side.

Picks should be performed during the formation of the first leaves, with one plant in the pot, after which provided a temperature of about 20 OC.

Planting of seedlings produced in the 2-3-rd decade of may, which provide between plants and between rows distance of half a meter. Followed by peat and humus, mulching, and then make their watering.

With the aim of obtaining of eggplant large size need to be shortened stems and side branches. After the second sheet over the ovary spend topping, and the branches without ovaries removed.

It is important to remember that it is unacceptable to overly moisturize the soil under the crop, but dryness is also detrimental to plants. Therefore, in the stage of fruit formation need time to water them. To make nitric and complex fertilizers for eggplants need in the stages of flowering and fruit formation.

When growing eggplant under the roof can be harvested already in the 2nd week of August, and with this method it will be much higher than when grown without protection.

A serious disease of this crop is considered to be a blight, in which all infected plants may die. That's why creating a "roof" - a rather effective way of turning the eggplant from Contracting the disease.