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IN TRUTH, EGGPLANT COMES IN MANY COLOURS AND HAS MANY NAMES BUT IT’S THE UNASSUMING STAR OF THE NIGHTSHADE FAMILY

Words Chloe Thomson

Originally grown for thousands of years in China and India, the versatile eggplant made its way to the Middle East and the Mediterranean well before 1300 and was warmly received. Yet, when it finally reached the Americas in the 16th century, it was greeted with much suspicion. As a member of the nightshade family, it was suspected (like many other vegetables) of being poisonous. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that eggplants — or aubergines as they are known to many in the Northern Hemisphere — finally started popping up in seed catalogues. THE EGGPLANT FAMILY IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST DIVERSE AND CULTIVARS VARY HUGELY IN SHAPE, COLOUR AND SIZE. The eggplant family is one of the biggest and most diverse, and cultivars vary hugely in shape, colour and size. These sun-…

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Good Organic Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue #11.5 - 2020

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