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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt
I am attempting to grow Ping Tung this year. Attempting = I had three plants growing in 2" containers until our cat squashed one yesterday... 2 plants left.
I want to buy some eggplant transplants locally. It has been so long since we ate eggplant grown in a home garden - I forget what it tastes like.
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Bad kitty. Do the leaves on your Ping Tung have any kind of smell that your kitty thinks it is like catnip plants?
I didn't put out any eggplants last year here. The year before I had the flea beetles so bad. I'd kill eggs off every leaf and come back a few hours later to find the nasty critters had laid double the egg amounts again. Other than hand squishing, I couldn't find anything to get rid of them.
I am thinking about netting the plants this year from the start, once they go outside and just raise the netting up as need be and hand pollinating.