Eggplantsare a theme I ’ve covered before , but today I ’d wish to introduce you to a few of my preferred unconventional eggplant variety . While bombastic , purple eggplant are for certain marvelous additions to the garden , if you have n’t produce white mad apple before , you may desire to give them a effort .
In my experience , white eggplants have a more or less different texture than their purplish kindred , and I also know the room they look in the garden . I ’m in particular fond of elongated varieties , which have perfect , snowy whitened fruits that flow delicately from the plants . Everyone who come to my garden ask about them , wonder where they came from and what they savour like . They ’re also a spicy vender at the Farmer market . Here are some varieties to try .
1. Snowy
This beauty bring on elongate eggplants that are about 8 inches long at maturity . harvest time while the tegument is still shiny and defect - liberal . The grain is strong , and it cooks bang-up . The plants do n’t require to be game and are well - become for grow in the flat coat or in containers .
2. Casper
Many consider Casper to be the standard of white eggplants . This 6 - inch - foresighted , Nipponese - type mad apple is extremely productive , often produce mighty until Robert Lee Frost . The flesh is balmy flavored — it almost has tip of mushroom with absolutely no bitterness .
3. Japanese White Egg
This cute piddling teardrop - shaped eggplant bush is early - mature , and each plant make dozens of pure white , 2- to 3 - inch - prospicient fruits . We love to slice them in one-half and put them on the grill . The sapidity is classic eggplant . This is a bully salmagundi for house with only one or two eggplant lovers — nothing will go to permissive waste .
4. Thai White Ribbed
A funky - shaped eggplant , the fruit of Thai White Round bet more like white heirloom tomatoes than eggplants . They ’re flattened heavens with abstruse ribs . I ’ve only been able-bodied to find seed atBaker Creek Heirloom Seeds , and I ’ve only develop them once , but we enjoyed the mild flesh and unequalled fruits of this form .
5. White Star
A intercrossed miscellany with bully disease opposition and respectable output , White Star is fairly scented - flavored and stimulate an first-class crop when picked as either baby eggplants or when the fruit give adulthood . The fully formed 7 - inch - long , tear drop - mold fruits are meaty and should be harvested before the skin starts to yellow .
6. White Comet
Another hybrid pick , this Nipponese variety get long , tapered yield . There ’s no bitter at all and very few seeds . I recover the plants themselves to be quite beautiful . The leaves are a dark fleeceable with purple ribbing and stems , and the purple flush are striking , especially when white fruits are also present .
7. Gretel
The final white eggplant variety I ’d like to inclose you to is certainly one deserving growing , peculiarly if you garden in containers . Gretel ’s fruits are small and finger - shaped , and the plants are short - statured and extremely productive . The fruits are bitter - free and tender ; we love to grill them whole .
Give a few of these ashen eggplant variety a try in your own garden and have us know what you think .
