| 62 days. These beautiful, mild-flavored fruits mature 3 weeks sooner than Black Beauty, and are an incredible 50% more productive! Vigorous, easy-care plants are ready to harvest just 2 months after setting out, with shiny, deep midnight-purple fruits, elegantly teardrop-shaped. Harvest them at 6 inches long for tender, succulent flavor. Yields are improved by this Whopper's great resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus! Begin seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before planning to set out. Eggplant is a warm-weather crop, so wait until after danger of frost before transplanting seedlings into the sunny garden. Set 18 inches apart. Note: the days to maturity listed above are from setting out plants, not from sowing. Pkt is 30 seeds. |
