If you want to plant on your siteeggplant, cultivation and care should be carried out according to all rules. Only in this case will it be possible to get a big harvest. Lack of experience should not embarrass you. Eggplant is a worthy representative of the Solanaceae family, which include tomatoes, potatoes and peppers. Therefore, no more care is required than tomatoes.

Before growing eggplants, you shouldchoose several varieties that are most suitable for the weather conditions in your area. Please note that this vegetable is very demanding, but it can be planted both in the greenhouse and in the open ground. In the middle zone, planting heat-loving eggplants, it is advisable to grow under film cover. This will accelerate the process of fruit formation and increase the yield twice.

It is worth remembering that eggplant is very thermophilicplant. He is sensitive to lack and excess of moisture, and is fastidious to the presence of sunlight. For the seedlings, a greenhouse in a shady corner of the garden or a site with closely located ground waters is not suitable.

Thinking about the location of the eggplant in itssite, and buying seeds, farm growing seedlings. Sow seeds should be in the second decade of February. Use for this purpose special garden containers with small cells and fertile ground, intended for tomatoes. Be sure to keep the temperature 22-24 degrees throughout the vegetation period of a plant such as eggplant. Cultivation at temperature drops will slow the development of the vegetable. Sowing seeds, sprinkle them with soil and pour. Cover the containers with film or glass until sprouts appear.

When the seedlings grow to 5-8 centimeters,Plant the plants in larger containers. Eggplants react poorly to different transplants, so this process should be minimized. Care is to maintain a stable temperature regime, watering and providing a large amount of light. If there is not enough light day, then use additional lamps in the morning and evening hours.

Planting aubergines in a permanent place in the greenhouseor beds are made only after heating the soil at least 18-20 degrees. Otherwise, all the ovaries will fall and growth will stop. Preliminarily prepare the soil on the ridges. It should be light, loose and moderately fertilized. We dig holes at a distance of 50 centimeters from each other and water them well. Gently release the seedlings from the pots and set in the hole. Top with dry soil.

Further care is not complicated. Periodically loosen the beds, weed out the weeds, watch the moisture of the soil and feed the eggplant. Cultivation of such tasty and useful vegetables will pass without much difficulty, if you know little tricks.

• Be sure to loosen the soil. Without oxygen access to the root system, eggplants stop growing.
• Do not waste your time tying the plant. In height, it reaches 50-70 centimeters and has a fairly sturdy stem. Therefore, this measure is not required.
• Carefully refer to watering the plant. The Earth should never dry up. Even the slightest drought will deprive you of the harvest.
• After planting seedlings on the ridges, swiperoot fertilizing with manure in the proportion of 1/10. When using chicken manure - 1/20. The first fertilizing of seedlings should be done 14 days after the transplant, and the second - at the time of the beginning of fruit formation.
• Seeds of aubergines are very popular with the Colorado beetle. Therefore, before planting in a permanent place, treat it with a solution of the drug "Prestige". This will make the eggplant unattractive to the beetle.
• Remove from the plants the lower yellowed leaves. Then it will not expend its forces on them.
• Do not over tighten with harvesting. This contributes to the faster development of other ovaries.
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