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to pests and diseases, and (most importantly) much quicker to crop.This is where they become exciting: aubergines are normally quite tricky to grow. They're best raised in a warm greenhouse, and if you sow seed later than March, you’re in danger of losing

, the best results come from growing plants on a windowsill indoors or in a greenhouse. Large fruited varieties such as 'Black Beauty' should yield three to six aubergines per plant. Smaller fruited varieties like 'Fairy Tale' will produce at least 10

whatsoever growing aubergines so any tips would be welcome Good luck with that, supersuzie1 - do keep us posted. Phil3 - you can start off aubergines in a small heated propagator (please see link below), but the plants do need heat once they've outgrown that

how many I had I've had 1 small aubergine in my greenhouse from a grafted plant - so far. This is the first time I've tried to grow them. I've got lots of flowers on plants that havn't grown very tall, all planted within the specified timeframe

One of my aubergine plants is growing funny things: http://www.flickr.com/photos/78866890@N06/?donelayout=1 They look like stems of plantain but I have looked really hard and there are only aubergine leaves! Picture 3 shows one of these stalks

Hi.. I have had a fresh horse poo tea bag in my water butt for a week now and I am wondering what's ok to put it on and when.. I am growing, cabbage, courgette, runner beans, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumber, aubergine, salad leaves, onions

for eating in salads, some for using in sauces and some for roasting. My aubergines will be so plentiful, I won’t need to buy any again (no matter how many aubergine parmigianas I make). I’ll grow enough garlic to hang in plaits around my kitchen and my

Anyone trying grafted tomato plants? I am growing gardeners delight and Shirley. Picking now and bumper crop heralds but the plants are expensive. I intended to grow standard tomatoes alongside to compare so I'm unsure if I would have had agood

Hi all..its me again ..lol I have got a Aubergine plant today from a nursery its about 12" tall and has good big leaves..I waas just wondering if there are any tips to growing them as I am a novice... I intend to grow it in a pot under a patio

My aubergines are growing to the size of a large marble then rotting, any ideas why? That sounds like poor pollination to me.  Even though aubergines are self-pollinating (that is they have male and female parts in each flower) plants grown indoors