All about eggplants

This vegetable has not yet taken a worthy place on our hundreds, but its agricultural engineering is no more difficult for the cultivation of tomatoes, and even easier - it is not even easier - no need to remove steps.
So, you bought seeds, better early varieties, even better hybrids, as they are more resistant to unfavorable conditions. Everyone knows how to disinfect and germinate seeds. In our black earth zone, seed seed in the boxes at a distance of 2 × 2 cm from March 1 to March 10. Watering, feeding - at your discretion, depending on the substrate. After a month and a half, I am preparing the guy for the wrapping of seedlings, refueling the organic. I use reworked manure, leaf humus, and from mineral fertilizers - ash.
When transplanting the plant I do not pull out of the box, and I take a closer to the land, i.e. I turn into a greenhouse with a distance of 10 × 10 cm.
At the same time, we climb the seedy leaves, watering from the watering can be warm water, close on top of a film or glazed frames. At this time, the night is still cold, so in the evenings she hide the greenhouse from above with old blankets or other rags. After 3 days, I open the greenhouse, checking how the seedlings were rooted. Earth should be wet, but not raw, water stagnation of eggplant is not tolerated.
Now you need to follow the seedle: in time to water, as soon as new leaves appear - to sprinkle on the leaves with a weak solution of urea. In the heat - to ventilate, opening the greenhouse from the ends, and by the time the seedling seedlings at a permanent place - the afternoon is to shoot the seedlings to get used to the sun and the wind.
After May 20, I prepare the garden for eggplants. Plants all summer should be ventilated, so it is better to raise it by 20-30 cm. Well refuel the same as under tomatoes. But plant
Eggplant seedlings must be vertically, not blunting into the soil, also with a room of the earth, as the root of the rod and if the earth sat down from it, then the seedlings will be longer.
Eggplants are the favorite delicacy of the Colorado Beetle, so as soon as the seedlings come true, paint the ground around the plants with a fermented infusion of chicken litter. The beetle flies on the smell of potato leaves, eggplants, his vision is not very developed, so the smell of chicken litter scares it. This is checked by many years. In the future, several times over the summer, the garden should be poured so influence.
Eggplants respond well and on the so-called dry irrigation - loosening by 3-5 cm after irrigation.
Often the lower leaves are yellow, break them down, it does not affect fruiting. If it is very hot weather, it is necessary after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, it is abundantly to pour cold water from above on the leaves, and after drowning the earth to jerk. In the evening, watering the plants can not, by night the leaves must dry. It is not necessary to impair the plants, but to loosen as often as you need. Yes, abundant watering with cold water can be done no more than 2-3 times in the summer. And also, if there is no infusion of chicken litter, drop the grass in the barrel, closing it with a film. Water from a rude bed with this black water when the smell appears. The effect will be the same: the colorado beetle will fly out your bed face.