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Tsakoniki eggplant Tsakoniki Eggplant

Solanum melongena

A variety of eggplant

How to sow Tsakoniki eggplant: Sow seeds indoors and transplant out, or plant nursery seedlings

Sun requirement for Tsakoniki eggplant: Plant in Full Sun

A violet and white striped eggplant with long cylindrical fruit and thin skin. The flesh is finely textured, firm and non-bitter. Popular with the Greeks and Italians of the Adriatic region. A reliable, vigorous producer, with fruit sometimes borne in clusters, fruiting 70 days from transplanting. Sow on even heat (20 degrees C) in July or August, prick out at 2.5 cm into deep trays, and plant out at 50 cm spacing once the soil reaches 15 degrees C, under a cloche in early spring if necessary.

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Tsakoniki eggplant facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

Growing Tsakoniki eggplants

  1. Sow seeds indoors 8 weeks before planting out
  2. Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
  3. Stake the plants 3 weeks after planting out
  4. Water deeply at planting out every week
  5. Mulch around the plants 2 weeks after planting out
  6. Feed with liquid fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every month
  7. Pick fruit regularly at first harvest every week
  8. Pull out finished plants 6 weeks after first harvest

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Ecological requirements

Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Solanum melongena L.

Family / Taxonomy Magnoliopsida
Asteridae
Solanales
Solanaceae
Optimal temperature 20 - 35 °C
Absolute temperature 9 - 40 °C
Optimal rainfall 1200 - 1600 mm/year
Absolute rainfall 800 - 4000 mm/year
Optimal soil pH 5.5 - 6.8
Absolute soil pH 4.3 - 8.5
Crop cycle 70 - 120 days
Max altitude 50 m
Life form herb
Life span annual
Habit erect
Optimal soil depth medium (50-150 cm)
Optimal soil texture medium, organic
Optimal soil fertility high
Optimal soil drainage well (dry spells)
Optimal soil salinity low (<4 dS/m)
Photoperiod short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours)
Optimal light very bright

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) ECOCROP, the crop ecological requirements database. Version 1. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/ecocrop. Accessed through the CGIAR Climate Action Data Hub, https://cgiar-climate-data-hub.github.io/catalog/ecocrop_1/.

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