Ping Tung Eggplant
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Ping Tung Eggplant
(Solanum melongena)
25 seeds
SKU: PTE-1-25
Eggplant is one vegetable that deserves a spot in every garden. That being said, many gardeners don’t grow it. This likely has a lot to do with not knowing what to do with it after harvest.
Pin Tung is a long slender fruited Asian variety. It’s shape lends itself to some interesting culinary uses. One of our favorite things to do with Ping Tung Eggplant is to make chips just like potato chips. Thinly sliced eggplant is fried in a skillet & lightly salted.
Something else we are quite fond of is french fried eggplant. Just cut the eggplant into french fries & fry them the same as potatoes (they cook faster).
Eggplant seeds should be started indoors 6-8 weeks before your last average frost date & transplanted after any chance of frost has passed.
Start seeds in cellular trays or their equivalent (we use 50 cells). Cells or pots should be roughly the size of a shot glass.
Maintain a soil temperature of at least 70 degrees Fahrenheit for germination.
Eggplant loves warm weather & handles drought very well. Don’t get in too big of a hurry to transplant them if the nights are still excessively cool.
Don’t be surprised if the plants take a while to take off, but once they do they will grow rapidly & start producing like crazy.
Seed Saving
Allow fruit to ripen to the point of turning yellow-white. Cut fruit in half lengthwise & scoop out seeds with a spoon. Rinse in a strainer while separating seeds from the pithy eggplant flesh with your fingers. Dry seeds out on a rag or paper towel until fully dried.
$4.00
Bulk 100 seeds = $15