Aubergine Black Beauty Introduced about 1910 and is long popular with home gardeners is this reliable and medium early variety. It has an excellent yield of shiny, near-black skinned fruit throughout the summer season producing large, 10-15cm long, smooth, glossy, round-oval, purplish-black fruits with good flavour, which can be used in all kinds of delicious Mediterranean recipes.
Aubergines can be grown outside in very sheltered sunny sites next to a south facing wall in the south, if the weather is very good but it is really best to grow them undercover. They require long hot periods to crop & our weather is very unpredictable.
The best & most reliable crops are produced in polytunnels/greenhouses in the soil or in containers or grow bags.
Aubergine Black Beauty Vegetable Seed Information
| Seed Quantity: | Approx 20 seeds per pack. |
| Site: | Polytunnel/greenhouse. |
| When to Sow: | January to April undercover at 20C. |
| How to Sow: | Sow 2 seeds to a module and if both seeds germinate - thin out the weakest seedling. When 10cm tall 'prick out' into pots and keep at 18-20C. Transplant into greenhouse soil when first flowers appear, space 40cm each way or 1 plant to a 20cm pot or 2 to a grow bag and keep indoors. When the plant reaches 20cm tall 'pinch out' growing tip to encourage it to bush out. |
| Care: | Containers can be moved outside if the weather is very hot and brought back in if it turns cold. Support stem with a cane as this helps as the fruits become heavy. As soon as the flowers set mist with tepid water to encourage a good fruit set (this also helps to deter red spider mite). Feed with potash rich tomato feed once a week when the first fruit has set. Once 7-8 fruits have set remove other flowers to encourage the plants energy into producing good aubergines. |
| Harvest: | August to mid-October whilst the fruits are still shiny and about 10-15cm long by cutting with a sharp knife. |
When to Sow Aubergine Black Beauty Vegetable Seeds
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