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Eggplant, a tender annual, will grow well anywhere tomatoes or peppers thrive. It does best in a warm, rich soil, planted after any danger of a late frost has past.
With recent interest in eggplant varieties, spawned by the renaissance of heirloom vegetables, many different colors, shapes and sizes can be found as seeds and bedding plants. There is a virtual rainbow of eggplant available for your garden.

From the purple varieties, long, narrow Japanese-style eggplants are faster maturing (around 60 days from transplanting into the garden) than globe Mediterranean types (at 70 days). Yet...

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