🌱🔥 From Hot Compost to Harvest 🌿🍆 How I Accidentally Became the Eggplant King 👑💜✨

00:00 - Start
00:28 - Intro
00:58 - Types of Eggplants
01:56 - Hot Compost
03:35 - Fertilizing While Young
04:26 - Pest Control
05:02 - Structural Support
07:24 - Harvesting Eggplants
08:11 - When Are They Ready?
09:26 - Seed Saving
10:43 - Conclusion

This season I didn’t set out to become the Eggplant King… but six Black Beauty plants later, I’ve harvested over 36 fruits and learned a ton along the way. In this episode of Vibe Gardening, I share everything that worked (and a few surprises) while growing eggplants for my favorite dish... baba ganoush. 🌱🍆

From hot compost experiments to fertilizing young plants, dealing with Japanese beetles, and knowing exactly when to harvest, this video covers the full journey. Plus, I’ll touch on seed saving and companion planting tricks that made this one of my most successful crops of the year.

My own videos I've referenced:
🪲 Japanese beetles episode:    • Japanese Beetle Control - How I Finally WO...  
💧 Watering setup with soaker hose:    • 🚙A Week Away… and My Garden Survived!  
🛠️ How I used the trellis to build a fence:    • The One Trellis Fix - Cucumber Trellis Rep...  

Shoutouts & resources:
👉 Jacq raiding Kevin's garden (Epic Homesteading):    • I Took Over Kevin's Homestead While He Was...  

👉 Jacob’s Fresh Farm (Chelsea/Dexter, MI): http://jacobsfreshfarm.com/

If you’ve grown eggplants before, I’d love to hear your favorite varieties and tips in the comments! And if you’re new here, subscribe for more gardening experiments, harvests, and lessons learned. Let’s keep gardening and keep vibing. 🌿

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