Aubergines 2021

I love cooking, eating and growing aubergines and know I'm lucky to be able to grow them outoors. I seem to grow a few more plants each year!

On the list this year - 

Italian Long Purple
Rotunda Bianca Sfumata di Rosa
Violettea di Firenze
Thai Green pea - didn't get a harvest last year as they took over two months to germinate, but have over-wintered three plants.
Tsakoniki
Turkish Orange

I love cooking, eating and growing aubergines and know I'm lucky to be able to grow them outoors. I seem to grow a few more plants each year!

On the list this year - 

Italian Long Purple
Rotunda Bianca Sfumata di Rosa
Violettea di Firenze
Thai Green pea - didn't get a harvest last year as they took over two months to germinate, but have over-wintered three plants.
Tsakoniki
Turkish Orange

Same q as the tomato one how many would you grow and are they all for your own use?

Hi Danny - I'll have six plants of each for myself and then give away the extras (I sow 2-3 per module but then don't have the heart to compost the thinnings ...). That should give us aubs to eat a couple of times a week from August until the first frost, some moussaka for the freezer plus enough to make four or five jars of aubergine pickle.

And I've just found some Blanche Ronde à Œuf seeds that I quite fancy ...

Hi Danny - I'll have six plants of each for myself and then give away the extras (I sow 2-3 per module but then don't have the heart to compost the thinnings ...). That should give us aubs to eat a couple of times a week from August until the first frost, some moussaka for the freezer plus enough to make four or five jars of aubergine pickle.

And I've just found some Blanche Ronde à Œuf seeds that I quite fancy ...

Wow just took my socks off to help counting so 36 plants ish! How many fruits would you average per plant or would it vary depending on the variety?

Also can't end the reply without saying moussaka, one of my top 3 dishes

It entirely depends on the variety - the Turkish orange is early into production, perhaps because the fruit are small, size of a satsuma, but it will keep on going. It is an old school variety, incredibly bitter if not ripe.
Violetta is probably the next best.
To be honest I've never added it up, but I will this year and report back

I make both a classic and veggie moussaka, but it is mostly lots of different curries

I'm going to try Kermit https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_181..._f1_hybrid
Last year's mixed plants were pretty but I didn't eat any!!

I wasn’t growing any aubergine this year. Until 10 minutes ago   . I’m also going to be growing Kermit   

Kermit looks gorgeous!

Maybe its a welsh thing - I was so chuffed and amazed by our first ever aubergine plants last year, Black Beauty, I never realised how thorny they were or how beautiful. However like Veggie I also didn't actually eat any.

I've sown black beauty and long purple. Only black beauty has popped as yet. Hope to have a bit of success this year where I have failed in the past. I love eating aubs, even just micro'd and scooping out the flesh for seasoning.