Does dense planting (seed) work with eggplant

[NCTIM]

I'm not starting a huge number but if you can start eggplant like tomatoes and peppers it would make it easier for me.

I was thinking about 7 seed hoping for 4 to come up in a 2" by 2" area.

Thanks

Tim

[Grub]

Go for it Tim... click on our resident moderator and expert eggie head, Craig LeH's site and follow the brilliatn seed-raising step-by-step instructions... I have put a lot of people all over the world onto this site and they have thanked me. Enjoy

[nctomatoman]

Sure - eggplant, hot or sweet peppers, tomatillos - all work just fine, like tomatoes. I plant up to 30 seeds per cell for any of them. In fact, eggplant and peppers make the transplant step even more easily than tomatoes.

[2FrontFeet]

I've been over on your site a few times now, nctom. I'd like to see pics of your eggplant seedlings, like your tomato seedlings you posted awhile back. Do you have any pics that I'm missing?
Also, how big of a container did you grow those eggplants in?

Sorry for the hijack, nctim.

[NCTIM]

That's good to hear. I went ahead and put multiple eggplant seeds in each cell.

I am surprised that peppers handle the transplant easier than tomatoes. My thoughts were that the tomato would have been the easiest because it forms roots along the stem.

Thanks for the info.

Grub you are dead on abouts Craig's website. I've been there many times and just didn't think of it earlier today.



I like Febuary.

Tim