Florida Market did well for me here in the south, I don’t know how it stands up to the rest of the varieties but it has been around a long time.
My first experience with this plant was about 40 years ago.
I was about ten years old and my mom decided to grow eggplant.
I was told to keep them alive so I had to haul water to them in coffee cans.
She always liked to cook dishes from the Mediterranean as her folks were from southern France.
I must have been the only kid in school to eat the things we did, I even had my own bottle of hot sauce I carried in my lunch bucket.
One other place I was shocked to find eggplant was in Marine Corps boot camp.
I had to pull mess duty for a week there and when they found out I could cook I never washed a dish moped a floor.
I got to cook in the galley and we made deep fried eggplant in a bread crumb type batter.
The guys thought they were eating some sort of tender meat.
I haven’t grown eggplant in about 5 years now and its darn time I did this year.
They are less finicky as when to harvest and would be the perfect plant with my schedule of being away from home a lot.
Now off to pick out some egg plant seeds.
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