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Eggplant - Thai Pea
$4.40
Collections: Eggplant Seed, Seeds All, Summer Growers - Seasonal, Vegetable Seeds, Vegetable Seeds C to D
Solanum torvum - Certified Organic Seed - Grown at Greenpatch Organic Seeds
Also known as Turkey Berry and sundakkai. Thai Pea Eggplant is a perennial growing to 2m high and wide. Having a branching habit and produces green pea sized berries in clusters. Used in Thai and Indian dishes for it's flavour and exceptional health benefits. Slightly bitter taste.
How to Grow
Eggplant grows best in fertile well drained soil receiving full sun. Improve soil with manures, compost or fertilisers before planting. Sow seeds in pots then transplant to the garden at 5cm high. When sowing cover seed with 3mm of soil and keep moist until germinated. Space 1m apart.
This eggplant is reletively pest free.
Sow Spring-Summer in pots
Packet contains approx 40 seeds.
80 days to harvest
Frost Tender
200 seed per gram
Uses
Used in Thai and Indian dishes for it's flavour and exceptional health benefits. Slightly bitter taste.