Lilek baklažán

Lilek baklažán
aubergine

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized shrub
USUAL HEIGHT	0.3-0.5m
USUAL WIDTH	0.3-0.4m
LOCATION	full sun
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Fruit trees

We have an attractive range of vegetables that can be grown on your terrace or balcony so you can harvest fresh fruit you produced yourself.

Aubergine can be quite difficult to grow from seed. That's why we have large, strong plants, already with flowers or small fruit that you only transplant into a larger pot and place on your balcony. All you need is keep watering and feeding and be sure to have fresh aubergines until the end of the season.

It needs warmth, plenty of sun and humus-rich soil. Water your plant as needed and add a liquid fertilizer (with phosphorus and potassium) once a week. If the main stem exceeds 30 cm and has no flower prune it to encourage branching. Harvest only fully coloured fruit that is highly glossy and firm but no more stone hard.

Aubergine should be consumed cooked or grilled, they are not recommended raw. You can grill them - plain or with seasoning. And they are excellent stuffed. Cut them in half, remove flesh which can be used into your stuffing, make a stuffing of your choice and bake it in the oven for 10-20 minutes. The best recipe is with mushrooms. Stir-fry chopped mushrooms lightly with butter and a little seasoning or just salt and caraway. Meanwhile, put scooped out aubergines in the oven to loosen a bit, mix the mushrooms with mozzarella cheese and a bit of marjoram and fill the aubergines with your stuffing. Bake it for 10-15 min at about 150°C. Delicious!

Last update 14-07-2015

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GLOSSARY

STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.