Light
Full sun in an open position.
Learn how to care for your green friend
Fingerling Long Purple Eggplant
Solanum melongena · Fingerling Long Purple Eggplant
Vegetables · Planned variety
Meet your green friend.
Fingerling Long Purple produces dark purple, club-shaped eggplants.
A space where it can thrive
Grow as a cultivated garden crop in a bed or suitably sized container. The illustrated nursery pot is a presentation, not a recommendation for the mature plant’s root space.
Ask about availabilityAvailability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.
Studio illustration. Appearance varies with age, variety and growing conditions.
Your care routine
Watering
Keep moisture steady in warm weather; do not leave cold roots saturated.
Soil & drainage
Rich, well-drained soil in the warmest sheltered position.
Fertilizer
Prepare the bed with mature compost. This crop benefits from adequate nutrition during active growth; follow a suitable vegetable fertilizer label and your soil test rather than adding an arbitrary dose.
Temperature
Frost-tender crop: start with warmth and move outside only after cold weather has passed.
Planting
Start indoors with warmth and light. Transplant only after cold nights have passed; a greenhouse helps in cool coastal summers.
Harvest
Cut glossy, firm fruit with a short piece of stem before the seeds become coarse.
Through the seasons
Support laden branches. Sustained warmth is needed for useful yields; fruit shape and ripe colour depend on the variety.
When your plant needs help
- Provide warmth and harvest glossy elongated fruit around its intended size, rather than waiting for a rounded Black Beauty shape.
Pets & little ones
Harvest only the appropriate ripe or prepared edible part. Do not eat leaves or stems. Keep plant material away from children and pets; never use a photo suggestion alone as an edibility check.
Grow with your neighbourhood store.
Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.
Visit The Golden BazaarCare references
Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.