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Re: When To Harvest Eggplant?

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At 02:51 PM 8/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Hi, folks-
>
>Well, I just got in big trouble for picking our first-ever watermelon before
>it was really ripe.  To see my family's reaction, yoiu'd have thought it was
>the family dog I cut in half.
>
>I thought I could tell when a watermelon was ripe.  Apparently not.
>
>As I carried the carcass out to the compost heap, I realized that I also
>have no idea when to pick our first-ever eggplants.  We have several fruits
>set on our Black Beauties.  They have been eggplant purple all along, and
>are now baseball-sized to softball-sized.  How will I know when to pick
>them?
>
>-BT
When they're glossy and beautiful. Don't wait until the surface turns to
matte and yellowish. Margaret L


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