Many gardeners consider the blue ones to be their favorite vegetables, but they do not know how to grow eggplant in their garden plot. The first step is to determine their variety. Not all varieties can be grown on their site. It is recommended to grow eggplant varieties F1 “Behemoth”, F1 “Baikal”, etc. However, it is not enough just to choose the right eggplant variety. After all, you still need to know how to properly grow eggplant seedlings from seeds.
Eggplant seedlings are grown on average about two months. It follows that the seeds for seedlings must be sown immediately after the end of winter. They are sown in pre-disinfected soil, as the land infected with pests can cause the death of seedlings. It is best to prepare the soil for eggplant seedlings on your own, and not to take the finished directly from the garden.
To prepare the land for seedlings, a planting mixture should be made up, which includes sawdust (one part) and three parts of peat. If sawdust could not be obtained, then they can be replaced with sand or perlite, taken in the same proportions. In some cases, peat may be acidic, so it must be neutralized with slaked lime. Neutralization must be carried out until the acid-base balance reaches a pH of 5.5.
There are no nutrients in the peat, so that the seedlings in this soil grow well, the soil should be fertilized. This is done by applying those mineral fertilizers, which contain trace elements useful for seedlings. In principle, for growing eggplant seedlings, soil with mineral fertilizers such as ammonium nitrate is also suitable . However, in this case, the substrate will not be a homogeneous mass.
And how to grow eggplant in boxes? In principle, this method is practiced quite often, but here it must be borne in mind that even if careful thinning is carried out, some of the roots of the seedlings will be lost forever. Therefore, seeds are best planted in plastic cups first. Moreover, the soil in them should not be compacted. If this condition is neglected, the earth will not be saturated with oxygen and the seeds may or may not rise at all, or the sprouts will develop very poorly.
Eggplant seeds should be laid out in the center of a plastic cup, gently spray with water, cover with previously prepared substrate and cover with PVC film. In order for the seeds to sprout faster, it must develop at a temperature not lower than twenty-five degrees.
When the first shoots appear, glasses with seedlings should be put in a bright place. If this is not done, then the young shoots will simply stretch. After the appearance of the first real leaf, eggplant can be transplanted into more capacious pots, the neck diameter of which will be ten to fifteen centimeters. To transplanted seedlings well rooted, it must be put in a shaded place for a couple of days.
Well, how to grow eggplant without watering them at all? It must be said that seedlings are often watered exclusively with water. You can not do without watering when growing young sprouts, but it is better to do this with a solution of fertilizers at room temperature.
If you start to water the seedlings with water, then a strong waterlogging of the soil will begin, and this can lead first to decay, and then to complete death of the roots. But it’s also not worth it to dry the soil, because it can also harm the roots.
We told you how to grow eggplant, or rather seedlings at home. But grown seedlings can be planted on a bed in open ground only after the last spring frosts have passed.
I know how to grow eggplant, you can provide your family with tasty and healthy little blue ones.