Aubergines - easy to grow & fruit in a London garden??

Lotus-eater

This thread got me thinking, I've never grown aubergines, but we had guacamole tonight, so I mentioned to the OH that I could try growing aubergines and what did she think of that?
Not much she said, we don't like them. But we could make guacamole I said, it's lovely. She very nicely then pointed out my error.

I put it down to premature ageing.

misskool

Lotus-eater wrote: »

This thread got me thinking, I've never grown aubergines, but we had guacamole tonight, so I mentioned to the OH that I could try growing aubergines and what did she think of that?
Not much she said, we don't like them. But we could make guacamole I said, it's lovely. She very nicely then pointed out my error.

I put it down to premature ageing.

Maybe switch the guacamole to baba ghanoush? :rotfl:

debtfree27thmay

I've been growing aubergine on the windowsill and have now planted 4 plants in the growbags outside. They were in a selection of 6 veg from Poundland(think it was Med collection?). I thought I would give it a go, and each plant is now 10-12" tall.Reading your comments, hopefully I shall have some fruit from them. I also didn't think I'd get anywhere with my corgettes, again planted from seed (from Poundland). I don't even like corgette but like a challenge and want to encourage my little boys to eat more fruit and veg. I've picked my first corgette, about 8-9" long and there are 4 more growing at the mo!

Lotus-eater

point3 wrote: »

Lotus-eater, try growing your own Poblano chillies to add your guacamole. I'm surprised at how well they're doing - about a dozen large plants in the greenhouse now from a packet of T&M seed.

Are they special chillies for guac then? I think we put any old chilli in it.

freezspirit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guacamole just something I thought was interesting. As I was sure Guacamole didn't have chillis in, I thought you put the chillis in the salsa part but it looks as I was wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_(sauce)

Lotus-eater

Well we put chillies in salsa, because I make that. My OH makes the guac and she said she put home grown chillies in it, so I presume she does.

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

To all who are having a go at growing aubergines this year - please keep me updated! I'd be really interested to know what you did (growing conditions, area of UK/world, pollination etc), the variety you grew, and what your ultimate fruiting results were!

Thanks in advance!