Grow Better Eggplants

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Eggplants can be a challenge for most gardeners, but after these tips from Gary Pilarchik, you'll have a LOT more success with yoru crop. Connect With Gary Pilarchik: Gary Pilarchik is the man behind The Rusted Garden, a wildly popular YouTube channel. He also has a blog of the same name, as well as a store where he sells seeds and gardening supplies. His book, The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's going on everyone? What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Gary Palarchick is back with us.
0:19.0	He is the man behind the Rusted Garden, which is a fantastic YouTube channel. I highly recommend you checking
0:25.2	that out and checking his blog out and maybe even pre-ordering his book, which is called The Modern
0:30.6	Homestead Garden, Growing Self--sufficiency in any size backyard and we've talked
0:35.8	about some of the classic summer crops tomatoes and peppers and there is another classic
0:40.1	one but at least from my experience both in the garden and from hearing from all of you
0:46.0	guys asking me how to grow them, I think eggplants are probably the more challenging of those three
0:52.4	and first of all I'm wondering if you agree with that Gary. are probably the more challenging of those three.
0:52.6	And first of all, I'm wondering if you agree with that, Gary.
0:55.6	I agree with it.
0:56.6	And it really wasn't maybe for the last three or four years
0:59.6	that I kind of figured out how to do it here.
1:02.0	Okay, cool.
1:03.0	Well, at least I'm not alone in my eggplant struggles.
1:05.8	What have you found?
1:06.8	I know for me, I've found that they take off the latest in the summer of the three we just mentioned.
1:15.2	I agree and like for instance my eggplants are producing I have a white standard you know purple one and one of the long skinny eggplant which I forget the
1:25.2	name right now and all three of them over the last 10 to 15 days we've been getting 95 degrees
1:31.2	temperatures here have just taken off. They're going crazy.
1:35.0	That's, yeah, I've noticed similar things when I have grown egg pun successfully.
1:41.0	I actually didn't plant any this year mostly because I knew
1:43.7	the move was coming and if they're coming late in the summer then I would have to rip them out
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