Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
My garden has tomatos, pole beans, summer squash, basil, peppers, kohlrabi, broccoli, cabbage, onions, sugar snap and snow peas. With clay soil, the cabbage family and onions always do well.
I'm also trying four eggplant seedlings... I'm not sure if the season will be long enough / hot enough to get anything off of these. But I'm thinking that if our local garden stores always sell eggplant seedlings, they must be appropriate for our area.
Anyone out there growing eggplants? That could tell me whether I can expect success or failure? (I'm in the colder part of zone 5, first frost comes mid-late September, first measurable snow historically is around October 12th. Oops, sorry, I probably should NOT have mentioned snow!!)
I think I'm a zone south of you (in New Jersey, right outside NYC). 2 years ago, the eggplants did great. Last year, since it rained EVERY DAY for a MONTH (no sun at all) in may or june (I forget now), I got 2 or 3 tiny eggplant last year (from plants from seeds). This year, we bought a pack of seedlings from the garden store, and they're growing, but the bugs seem to be having a party on them (leaving everything else in the garden alone)