You cannot harvest eggplants too early. Baby eggplants are a delight to eat. But you can leave them too long. Eggplant should be harvested when they are one-third to two-thirds full mature size.

Eggplant is one of the most versatile vegetables in the home garden. The fruit can be steamed, baked, fried, grilled, boiled, sauteed, breaded and stuffed. Believed to be native to India, eggplant is ...

Eggplants are one of those garden vegetables that can feel a little intimidating when it comes to knowing the right time to harvest. Unlike tomatoes, which turn noticeably red, or cucumbers, which ...

See full growing stages of an eggplant from a seed to harvestable fruits in this time lapse. This was a Japanese long purple ...

Knowing when to harvest vegetables is equally as important as knowing how to grow them. Some veggies do best when picked immature, others need to be fully ripe. (Julia Kumari Drapkin) People work hard ...

With more than 30 years of experience growing organic vegetables, Connie Zweck knows beans about eggplant. Zweck Fresh Vegetables and Flowers is a USDA Certified farm in Longmont where Connie and ...

It's harvest time for summer's purple passion, a colorful fruit that masquerades as a vegetable and is comfortable in a wide variety of dishes. From now until October, Lancaster County farms and ...

The eggplant plant grows tall with big green leaves, fuzzy stems and star-shaped purple flowers. After blooming, the stems close around the flower and the eggplant begins to form. Their size varies as ...

Eggplant has to be one of the most intimidating items at the supermarket. With its monolithic shape and Darth Vader coloring, eggplants are a mystery to many shoppers. This fruit (yes, fruit) is named ...