What Should I Know About My Variety Of Eggplants (Part 1)?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Fairy Tale’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Bonica’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Moneymaker’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Mini Bambino’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Turkish Orange’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Little Finger’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Applegreen’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Prosperosa’?

Do you grow a variety called ‘Galine’?

This unusual hybrid plant bears long, thin fruits, striped with white and purple; they are often carried in clusters. The compact plants are well-suited to growing in containers, grow bags, and pots on the patio, and often do well in cooler regions.

This tall, hybrid standard-type plant has excellent vigor and is highly productive, even in cooler regions. The lofty plants produce excellent-quality fruits and are suitable for container or soil cultivation, indoors or outdoors, but will need supports.

This very robust and cold-tolerant hybrid eggplant bears slightly elongated and rather pointed fruits of good flavor. It is well-suited to both cool and warm regions and can yield well outdoors in hot summers. It is best-suited to greenhouse use.

This novelty plant produces numerous glossy, dark, attractive fruits. Although the small size and limited yield make it a poor choice for the kitchen, it is a decorative, highly ornamental vegetable and is especially loved by children. It is suited to both soil and pot growing.

This traditional non-hybrid type produces highly unusual fruits that are small but numerous and have a sweet flavor. This variety is only suitable for warm conditions so grow it under plastic or glass in cold regions, or outdoors in hot areas.

This non-hybrid cultivar bears many slim, long, dark-purple fruits of good texture and flavor, which are carried on vigorous plants. It has great ornamental and curiosity value and is good for culinary use in warm regions or for indoor cultivation.

This novelty, heirloom, non-hybrid variety produces moderate yields of egglike, apple-green fruits even when conditions are not ideal. The small fruits are tender and of good flavor. It does best in hot regions and should be grown in greenhouses elsewhere.

This non-hybrid, traditional eggplant originates in Italy. The fruits are small and almost spherical. They are of good quality and their pale purple color is unusual and well worth growing for its ornamental value. Greenhouse cultivation is best in areas without hot summers.

This hybrid standard-type bears heavy crops of large, attractively glossy, purple fruits. It is best suited to indoor cultivation in cooler areas. Plants are relatively compact and easily managed, although some staking is required.

‘Long Purple’ long-established, rather variable, non-hybrid eggplant is sold widely and inexpensively and has stood the test of time. Although it is not the heaviest cropper, it is reliable, producing long, good-quality violet rather than purple fruits.