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    Are my Aubergines ready to harvest

    I planted the Aubergine seeds that came with this magazine this year. The plants are good and strong and the Aubergines are light purple at the top by still creamy colour at the bottom. Are they ready to harvest or should I wait for them to turn dark purple.
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    Do they look like the picture on the packet?

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    • #3
      What a good question RL and welcome to the Vine Mosscoone, hope you enjoy the fruits of your labour - if they're ripe. I think you can have white ones, as well as purple.
      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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      • #4
        You can pick aubergines at pretty much any stage although don't wait for them to go dull or they'll be rubbish.

        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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        • #5
          When they're nice and shiney and a lovely purple colour - unless they're not a purple one of course

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          • #6
            Mine are a lovely purple colour, but the biggest is only the size of a tennis ball. Will they still be tasty to eat?
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            • #7
              Yes -- you can basically eat them at any stage.
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              • #8
                Mine look like so: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

                When they get, basically, bigger than a large orange, we consider them ready for roasting :-)

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                • #9
                  It all looks so... warm.
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                  • #10
                    We've aubergines, all looking round (about tennis ball size) but really shiny. I thought they had to go oval but I take it from this thread they're OK to pick now?
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                    • #11
                      Depends what variety they are Maytreefrannie - some are round, some are oval. I would think tennis ball size is OK to pick and eat.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by jacob View Post
                        Yes -- you can basically eat them at any stage.
                        As Jacob says - you can eat any variety at any stage. It's just normally you let aubergines grow to size ie size for that particularl variety. But at the end of the season, when the weather gets colder or maybe if a plant gets disease/starts to die - pick and eat any aubergine fruit as and when!
                        Last edited by smallblueplanet; 13-11-2011, 08:17 PM.
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                        And a heaven in a wild flower

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                        • #13
                          I think mine are finally coming to an end ......a few fruits left but they are pathetically small even tho the plants still seem to be going strong
                          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
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