Eggplant Swan: description, photos, reviews

Content

1 Description
2 Advantages of the variety
3 Growing and care
4 Reviews

In modern summer cottages and garden plots, eggplant is no longer a young guest, but a real long-lived host. Increasingly, gardeners are giving preference to growing this particular vegetable, rich in beneficial properties. In this article we will talk about a representative of the white eggplant variety “Swan”.

Description

Eggplant “Swan” is a mid-season variety in terms of fruit ripening. The period of complete fruit ripening from the moment the first shoots appear is 105-116 days. The bushes are compact, medium in size, reaching a height of 50-70 cm. The variety is suitable for growing both in a greenhouse and in open ground.

The fruits have a cylindrical, slightly elongated shape. During the period of technical maturity they are painted white. The size of one vegetable is 18-20 cm in length and 5-7 cm in diameter. The weight of one individual ripe fruit ranges from 200 to 250 grams.

The flesh of the Swan variety eggplant is snow-white, tender, and completely without bitterness. It is this property that makes the variety popular among a large number of gardeners.

The productivity of this type of eggplant is high. From one square meter of bed you can harvest up to 18 kg of vegetables.

Important! To obtain maximum yield from one bush, it is necessary to leave no more than 5-6 large inflorescences on it.

In cooking, the variety is very popular as a raw material for preparing caviar, pickles and main courses.

Advantages of the variety

Among the key advantages of Swan eggplant, it should be noted:

high productivity;
excellent tolerance to temperature changes and the main “whims of nature”;
good resistance to a wide range of diseases characteristic of eggplant;
excellent taste and product quality;
Widely used in cooking.

Attention! In addition to their main advantages, white eggplant varieties are especially valued for their beneficial and medicinal properties.

Regular consumption of such eggplants helps prevent headaches, improves digestion and saturates the body with vitamins and minerals.

Growing and care

The process of growing and caring for the plant is no different from the reproduction of the traditional purple variety. The main procedures are as follows:

Sowing seeds for seedlings.
Picking grown plants.
Planting seedlings in a garden bed or greenhouse.
Watering, weeding, loosening, fertilizing and pinching the bush.
Harvesting.

Seeds are sown for seedlings in mid-March.

Important! Picking is carried out only after 2-3 leaves appear on the plant.

Under favorable climatic conditions, eggplant seedlings can be planted in the ground from mid-May to the end of the first ten days of June.

You will learn when and how to properly harvest the first eggplant from the video:

Reviews

Diana Igorevna, 35 years old, Volgograd

This year I decided to sow unusual eggplants on my plot. Why unusual? Because they are white in color, which is new for our dacha cooperative. I planted the “Swan” variety. Since the climate in my region is quite warm, I planted the “curiosity” directly in the garden bed.After the appearance of the first fruits, which ripened quite quickly, I began to increasingly notice the surprised looks of my neighbors, who were perplexed by the color of my snow-white beauties. The variety turned out to be very productive indeed. I prepared a large amount of caviar and salads for the winter, and also treated my neighbors to an unusual vegetable.

Olga Petrovna, 41 years old, Volgograd

On my plot I constantly conduct experiments and plant various varieties that are atypical for many gardeners. This year I decided to experiment with eggplants. I bought the most unusual and exotic varieties at the seed store. They all differed in shape, color and taste. All species were planted in seedlings in open ground. I cared for the new items as if they were ordinary purple eggplants that we are all familiar with. In July, my beauties pleased me with their first harvest. All varieties were really different in taste. Some tasted like mushrooms, others tasted like eggplant, while others were indistinguishable from spicy chicken. The main thing is that there was no bitterness in all the vegetables. The yield of the varieties was also encouraging. The experiment was a success!