How To Overwinter Aubergines - Overwintering Eggplant

[@BloosSelfReliance]

Brilliant!!! It always feels more worthwhile growing a plant like aubergine when it lasts longer than just one growing season. Thanks so much for sharing this. They’re going back in the growing list for next year now.

[@rosenurse7687]

Thank you for sharing! You truly are a great teacher! I always enjoy your videos!

[@goodmabel9752]

Thank you. I’ve always struggled with Aubergines and chillies and so had a half hearted attitude but you have inspired me to have a better approach it can be done in the north of England cheers!

[@frankfrank6541]

Thank you for your time.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

I never thought of growing eggplants (U.S) during the winter. I’ve overwintered peppers but I’ve seen someone grow squash indoors too. You inspired me to experiment. I got just one eggplant out of the entire season, so Thank you.

[@neilmarshall2315]

Thank you for such an excellent explanation. I was given an egg plant by a friend and now I’ll try to keep it growing for as long as I can 👍👍👍

[@TuftyMcTavish]

👨‍🏫Good tutorial! I’ve not tried over-wintering indoors because my 'grow room' (cough Dining Room 😉) will be rammed by January anyway. This year my potted Aubergine plants look really rough, but the ones I put in a bed elsewhere in the garden might be candidates, but they are all really large plants.

[@westlakefarms]

That's great,I never thought to overwinter eggplant.I have done it with peppers successfully, so I'm going to give this a try! Thanks(NY-zone 7a)

[@HollenbergR]

I'm in the same zone and about to try this. Did it work well for you?

[@camokiebks]

You covered all the scenarios! Thank you. Very informative.

[@klasina55]

Thanks, I have 2 small plants, that did quite well. I am going to try to keep them on the bedroom windowsill.

[@Knight8365]

Great video thanks!

[@jenniferrevilla5298]

Thankyou, every good instructions and demonstration. This is the first year I have grown eggplant and peppers. So happy I can try to over winter till next yesr. (US)

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

Useful info. Bought one but knew nothing about them. Just brought mine indoors in chilly Wigan. I hate to see things die.

[@TheGreenPond-nature]

Brilliant thank you

[@Katya-zj7ni]

As usual excellent straightforward advice. Thank you.

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Glad it was helpful!

[@susancruz729]

Good job!

[@turkeychicken8095]

I've just bought a paraffin heater for my greenhouse but I don't think it's going to give enough warmth. I'm going to bring my aubergines in to the house. Really helpful video. Thanks.

[@moezarty]

AOA - Thank you for the great content. I tried this method many times but sadly I always end up with a fungus gnatt infestation indoors and I think the larvae eats all the plant roots which kills my plants. However around early September, I took healthy 30cm aubergine, chilli and tomatoe suckers for rooting and placed them in water. When they were ready around end of September, I moistened compost which I then oven-baked for 10 mins at 150 degrees C so it got nice and steamy, once cooled, i mixed in some perlite and a bit of sharp sand to make the growing medium. I washed the rooted clones with fairy liquid and neem oil solution, then potted them in 2 litre pots (smaller pots always do poorly for me) halfway up the stems using the prepared growing medium and put a 1cm top dressing of sharp sand over the top. I watered sparingly over winter and kept them on a sunny window. This resulted in no fungus gnatts and no aphids indoors. The plants didn't grow much over the colder months, they even dropped some leaves and became very woody. But since the end of March, they have burst into life and there is lots of new growth. I have removed the top dressing of sand and repotted them into bigger pots with fresh compost and given them a 1/2 strength compost tea. My plants are now 30cm tall (Mid April) and are producing lots of flower buds already. I have enough plants so I am even considering cloning these throughout the season instead of growing from seed again.

[@selinabegum2001]

Great job

[@reggie5]

Thanks. Gona try overwintering a couple of my stripey aubergine plants as well as three pepper plants. They take so long to get started (then the season is over) so it seems worth a try. 👍🏼

[@joanies6778]

I overwintered my eggplant in my basement. They were grown in large pots, but did not produce, so I wanted to see if they will do better this season. I cut them back and put them in small pots. Unfortunately, I did not remove all the old soil and use new potting soil. Big mistake! It brought in some fungus gnats. I just got rid of the gnats using a peroxide drench (1 part 3% peroxide to 4 parts water, kills adults and eggs). So, just be careful bringing ANY size into your home. Use new soil.

[@brianwhite9555]

I'm going to try overwintering at least one pepper and one aubergine plant this winter(U.S.), but I'll remove all the garden soil from roots and use a seed starting mix for indoors. I want to make sure I don't bring any insects and eggs inside. Thanks!

[@anthonyarthurs3937]

Cheers for the tips, I bought some aubergines in May for the allotment. I dont like the idea of paying good money for them only to throw them away in the winter

[@BelleRLin]

How did you manage to grow everything so productively? My 9cm pot aubergines came in end of May and in 2 months they barely grew. Similar thing happens if I start from seeds, during 3-4 month of UK growing season the 'tropical' vegs (aubergine, peppers etc) all only manage to set fruits and the temperature already drops by then, so I never manage to get a decent yield. I have a cold greenhouse but I didn't find it doing much. Perhaps I need a heated greenhouse?

[@carolewilson551]

Thank you! I've been trawling youtube for a while looking for this (thinking -if you can do it with chillies then why not aubergine) with not much luck. This vid was perfect, answered all my questions 🙂 I have 2 plants in my polytunnel, one has been really productive, the other (although v healthy n lots of flowers) gave not one fruit. Would this one be worth saving...? Many thanks again.

[@MyFamilyGarden]

I think it would be worth trying, getting through most of winter is usually not a problem it's late winter early spring that is the toughest time, keep an eye out for aphids

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

I've been looking for the root trimming process! Next year I want to have plants I can plant out and then pot up in the fall to overwinter. WRT overwinter tomatoes, there's micro dwarf tomatoes one can grow on a window sill and get fresh tomatoes all winter.

[@MyFamilyGarden]

Which variety are those?

[@lesleyhoban6559]

Frost hit mine .. can I still safe it for winter indoors ... leases have been touched and dropping

[@electrapearce-roccio6004]

Hi I've got some baby plants growing in the poly tunnel do you think they'll survive without being dug up? Thanks

[@MyFamilyGarden]

I think they might struggle in an unheated greenhouse

[@xperyskop2475]

Build greenhouse inside your greenhouse

[@aileenh7736]

Green house or poly tunnel?

[@MyFamilyGarden]

best in the house

[@aileenh7736]

@@MyFamilyGarden just need the room !!

[@TutorSFE]

Is it possible to overwinter a kudu? Is that a thing? We only got male flowers which is really sad

[@MyFamilyGarden]

They're annuals, even in tropical climates they die back

[@TutorSFE]

Sad :(. Is there anything else your overwintering? I have never done it but i have some tomato suckers with roots which i wanna over winter, so insha Allah thatll be a cool lil projecf.

[@milo-qh7cv]

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