Eggplant - Black Beauty

$1.89

Eggplant prefers rich, deep, loose soils with large amounts of organic material. Plant in the spring, 3 to 4 weeks after the last average frost date. If nighttime temperatures drop below 60 degrees, the fruit will not set. Try Black Beauty Eggplant dipped in flour and sauteed in olive oil (Italy), stir-fry with bean sprouts, peppers, and tomatoes (China), or roasted and combined with olive oil, chopped onions and tomatoes (Russian relish). The unique and tasty dishes cooked in Japan, China, Italy, Russia, and other countries make eggplant a useful and tasty vegetable for your garden. Provide 1 inch of water a week if it does not rain. Eggplant is a very international vegetable. The Eggplant Black Beauty, 'Solanum melongena', is a very attractive plant with 1 to 3 pound, purple/black fruit that keeps well and has an excellent flavor. Ground temperature needs to very warm for seed to germinate. ... more

Aster - Tall Matsumoto It will provide an "end-of-the-season pick-me-up" with its dazzling, radiant, medium sized flowers. Add compost to improve marginal soil quality. The Tall Matsumoto blooms from mid to late summer up to the first hard fall frost. This plant is excellent as a cut flower and the bright colors look great in any border. The 2 inch wide flowers have white petals tipped bright pink with contrasting yellow centers. The plants require average water and they do not like to dry out. The Aster Tall Matsumoto, 'Callistephus chinensis', is a florist quality cut flower variety with tall, strong stems and an unusual bi-color flower with a yellow center. This Aster has a very long vase life.