Vegetable / Warm season
Black Beauty Eggplant
Warm patio containers and protected raised beds.
Classic glossy purple fruit with mild flesh when harvested young.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 80
- Germination temperature
- 75-90F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 24 inches
- Row spacing
- 36 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 21 days after last frost
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Steady warm-season moisture, especially during fruit set.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Do not set outside while nights are cool; flea beetles can hit stressed plants hard.
- nightshade
- warm-season
- container
- staking
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Nightshade Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: UMN starting seeds indoors