Thai Green Pea Eggplant: Growing Tips

Key facts

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United States

Overview

Thai Green Pea is a Southeast Asian heirloom on tall plants that bear tiny green fruit resembling peas. These pea eggplants are cooked whole in curries and pastes. Stake the tall plant and pick clusters as they size up.

Thai Green Pea traits

• Tiny green pea-like fruit
• Tall plant that needs support
• Southeast Asian heirloom

Good for

• Thai curries and chili pastes

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Thai Green Pea FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every eggplant variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Eggplant growing guide
• How to Plant Aubergines: Choosing Plants and Soil Temperature
• Training Aubergines to Three Stems and Keeping Them Cropping
• Cutting Aubergines Back in Midsummer for a Second Crop
• Aubergine Growing Calendar: Planting to the End of the Season
• Aubergine Problems: Wilts, Beetles and Hard, Dull Fruit
• When to Pick Aubergines and Why to Take the First One Early
• All 172 eggplant varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.