Eggplant seed is one of the seeds that gave me the biggest headache for the longest time. It’s one of the few cases, where if we didn’t have seed extracting equipment, I might not try to grow bulk amounts of the seed. This is how we get the seeds out of the eggplant the Millet … More Eggplant seed has always frustrated me.
These eggplants were sitting on their plants for the last few months. And now that frost can be a thing, we clipped them from their plants and brought them to wait some more in a tunnel. These eggplants wouldn’t make for very good eating. But hopefully they will make for good seed. All that waiting … More As patient as an eggplant
Eggplant seed should be as easy #seedsavingformarketgrowers as tomatoes and peppers. They are selfers with crossing rates similar to peppers. (That means you will get some crossing if you don’t use isolation distances but not heavy crossing.) And again, this is one of those crops where the seed is in the vegetable part. So you … More Eggplant Seed Frustrates Me
This is the fourth part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 3 covered calculating how much to grow to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is choosing when to plant your seed crop to get a reliable seed harvest. (Most of this article was originally … More Plant Seed Crops on Time – Seed Production Planning Part 4
This is the third part of a series on crop planning for seed production. Seed production planning part 2 covered calculating how much seed to harvest to meet your farm and marketing demands. The next step is determining how many plants you need to grow to produce the amount of seed you need. We’ll look … More Seed Production Planning Part 3 – How Much To Grow
We first saved eggplant seed 5 years ago using a blender to extract the seed. We wound up with a lot of damaged seed. When we started theses seeds the next year, I figured a few would germinate. Instead a thick white mould grew on the soil surface. We tossed the tray into the compost … More Saving Eggplant Seed