Vegetable Description: This Italian heirloom, Long Purple, produces dark purple cucumber-shaped fruit with firm, mild flesh. Good yields, especially in northern climates! Plants will typically produce 4 or more 8-10” fruits with harvest beginning in 70 to 80 days. Average water needs. Some parts of plant are poisonous if ingested.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Solanum melongena var. esculentum

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Vegetable Duration: Annual

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 75

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 8000

Vegetable Height: 24” to 36”

Vegetable Spacing: 24” to 36”

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside about 2 weeks after last frost. Plant about 24” apart, and 1/4“ below soil surface. Rows should be about 36” apart.

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