New Hampshire Hybrid eggplant
Solanum melongena 'New Hampshire Hybrid'
AAS Winner 1939
USDA zones9 to 12
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Habit
- Erect
- Bloom season
- Summer, autumn
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, clay, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'New Hampshire Hybrid' eggplant (Solanum melongena 'New Hampshire Hybrid') is a vegetable for food gardens, containers, and borders. It is typically grown as an annual. It is tender to cold, and the first hard frost will kill it. This plant likes full sun and average to moist soil of most types. It grows upright at a moderate pace. Bees visit the flowers in summer.