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Aubergines are worth growing for their flowers!

(28-06-2020, 12:37 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Aubergines are worth growing for their flowers!

Mine are finally thinking of making flower buds. Some of the leaves are as big as my head. Remarkable-looking plants.

My leaves are more hand size - unless you have a small head.

I’ve got a flower bud on one of mine. The other one that was felled by voles is making a comeback.

I’m showing off!! [attachment=606] Six plants and they have all got fruit and loads of flowers.

I have one plant going mad, another doing ok and the third teeny ... My Aubergines are like the 3 Bears basically

Picked the first aubergines today - the plants were grown by a friend and are way ahead of my own. Embarrassing as she's a newbie I was helping last year
Baby Belle F1 & Listada Da Gandia

[attachment=773]I think it'll be a while before I can pick aubs but they are making an appearance now. 

You will be surprised just how quickly they grow.

Sadly the voles got my Listada di Gandia after just a single fruit - I've been trying to keep it going for a week with buckets of water but it eventually had so little stem and root left it just fell over 
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But both Clara 
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and Caspar 
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are starting to fruit. 

Both varieties are new to me (the plants were grown by a friend), so we shall see what the flavour is like