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Tsakoniki Eggplant
A variety of eggplant
How to sow Tsakoniki eggplant: Sow seeds indoors and transplant out, or plant nursery seedlings
Sun requirement for Tsakoniki eggplant: Plant in Full Sun
A violet and white striped eggplant with long cylindrical fruit and thin skin. The flesh is finely textured, firm and non-bitter. Popular with the Greeks and Italians of the Adriatic region. A reliable, vigorous producer, with fruit sometimes borne in clusters, fruiting 70 days from transplanting. Sow on even heat (20 degrees C) in July or August, prick out at 2.5 cm into deep trays, and plant out at 50 cm spacing once the soil reaches 15 degrees C, under a cloche in early spring if necessary.
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Tsakoniki eggplant facts
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Crop cycle
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For Tsakoniki eggplant, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 9°C and a shortest growing cycle of 70 days at its best temperature, about 1295 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Tsakoniki eggplant will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing Tsakoniki eggplants
- Sow seeds indoors 8 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Stake the plants 3 weeks after planting out
- Water deeply at planting out every week
- Mulch around the plants 2 weeks after planting out
- Feed with liquid fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every month
- Pick fruit regularly at first harvest every week
- Pull out finished plants 6 weeks after first harvest
Plant Tsakoniki eggplants with
bell pepper
potato
serrano pepper
wax bean
african marigold
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 70 to 120 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Solanum melongena L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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