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Eggplant<br />
(Solanum melongena and others) 25-35<br />
seeds per packet. We offer the best selection of<br />
quality heirloom eggplants in the USA. This is my<br />
favorite crop, as it is easy to grow, and the fruit is<br />
nutritious and incredibly delicious. Another of the<br />
great staple agricultural crops of India, eggplant<br />
varieties have long been appreciated in traditional<br />
communities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and<br />
Mediterranean coast, and, more recently, the<br />
Americas. With their often large and showy purple<br />
or white blooms and velvety leaves, eggplants are<br />
ornamental enough to grow in the border or even<br />
in the front yard! Heat-loving plants, eggplants<br />
are best started indoors about 8 weeks before<br />
the last frost date of spring. Be sure to set out<br />
transplants only after carefully hardening them to<br />
outdoor conditions, and only after warm weather<br />
has really arrived.<br />
APPLEGREEN #EG103<br />
70 days. An early, light-green eggplant. Good yield, very<br />
tender and delicious. Smooth oval-round fruit growing<br />
on small plants. We highly recommend this fine variety!<br />
Developed by the late Prof. Elwyn Meader, UNH 1964.<br />
Pkt $2.00<br />
ARUMUGAM’S EGGPLANT #EG149<br />
This variety produces an assortment of green, white and<br />
lavender fruit, many are striped. It is used in Tamil Nadu<br />
State in vegetable stews and curries, as well as stuffed.<br />
It was given to a traveler by the Arumugam family of<br />
Ambal, India, who have a small rice farm near the island<br />
of Karaikal. We are proud to offer this great little Indian<br />
eggplant. Pkt $2.00<br />
ASTRAKOM #EG174<br />
Compact plants reached barely two feet in our trials. Each<br />
plant yielded several 4-inch, teardrop-shaped fruits, of a<br />
rich, glossy purple-black. Grown from seed provided by<br />
our Belorussian friend Andrey Baranovsky. Pkt $2.00<br />
ASWAD #EG175<br />
This incredibly delicious Iraqi variety comes from our friend<br />
Nael Aziz. Satiny, dark purple-black fruits get very large—to<br />
3 pounds or more. Shaped like a squat teardrop, the flesh is<br />
sweet and tender, perfect for grilling or baking. The fruit are<br />
abundantly produced. Very heat tolerant and productive in<br />
our trials. Pkt $3.00<br />
AUBERGINE DU BURKINA FASO #EG139<br />
(S. aethiopicum) A unique heirloom from Burkina Faso, West<br />
Africa, featuring a tall plant, beautiful enough for the flower<br />
garden, which produces many good-sized, red-ribbed fruit.<br />
The fruit is wrinkled, flat, and (some think) somewhat bitter<br />
and strong flavored. Pkt $3.00<br />
BANGLADESHI LONG #EG146<br />
Cylindrical fruit are very attractive-looking, being purplegray<br />
with dark purple streaks. This variety was collected in<br />
Bangladesh. Pkt $2.25<br />
BLACK BEAUTY #EG113<br />
90 days. Standard old type, large black fruit of excellent<br />
quality. Very tasty but is lower yielding and much later than<br />
many types and needs a long season. Pkt $1.50 or 1 oz $6.00<br />
BLACK CHAMPION #EG133<br />
A delicious and tender, Chinese variety that is long and<br />
slender, 14 long by 2” wide, with black skin. This midseason<br />
variety produces heavy yields and the plants have<br />
good resistance to disease. Pkt $2.00<br />
“Thou shalt not kill.”<br />
—exodus 20:13<br />
Aswad Eggplant:<br />
A delicious & truly massive variety from Iraq<br />
Fact... Ladies in the Orient used to make dye from the skin of eggplants, which they<br />
then used to stain their teeth gray, because it was thought to be very stylish.
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