Eggplant Robin Hood: description, photo, reviews

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1 Description, characteristics of the variety
2 Growing and care
3 Reviews of gardeners

The Robin Hood eggplant variety can be called unique, one of the best in both taste and yield. The fruits are set within 90 days after sowing. It grows and bears fruit equally well in any soil - this variety adapts well to any conditions.

Description, characteristics of the variety

Robin Hood fruits with a shiny lilac peel grow up to 20 cm in length and 8-9 cm in diameter, as in the photo:

These purple "barrels" weighing up to 300 g have good taste. Their skin is thin, and the flesh is tender, without bitterness, almost without seeds. The variety is suitable for drying, frying, salting, pickling. Delicious caviar and any salads are made from it.

The bush of the Robin Hood variety is undersized, there are few side shoots, but fruits are well tied on them. Since fruiting is abundant, it is recommended to install supports to which the plants are tied during growth.

Growing and care

Robin Hood is the perfect variety for budding gardeners. Unlike other eggplants, which bear fruit only if certain rules are followed, this handsome man will grow and is guaranteed to give a good harvest even in adverse conditions. The cultivation technique of the Robin Hood variety is not much different from other varieties. Eggplants are grown through seedlings. Sowing seeds begins in March. Eggplants can be planted in a greenhouse or soil at the end of May. In mid-June, with good care, you can already start harvesting. Robin Hood can bear fruit before fall.

Seedling

For growing eggplant seedlings, seeds are taken 2 years ago. Before sowing, they are hardened and tested for germination. The optimum sowing depth is no more than 2 cm. Seeds germinate within a week after sowing in warm, moist soil. During this time, you need to prepare the garden.

Robin Hood seedlings are planted on long beds 60-70 cm wide. Eggplant sprouts are planted in holes at a distance of 40-50 cm from each other. The plant is compact, but for full growth and fruiting, it needs air access. You also need to shape the eggplant bush so that neighboring plants do not come into contact with each other.

Planting, feeding

Before planting and during the growth of eggplants, you need to feed the soil with mineral fertilizers containing nitrogen and phosphorus. These elements are also found in birch ash, the roots of legumes. For feeding eggplant, you can prepare a special solution in advance. Straw, stalks and roots of nettles, legumes are laid in the container. Then compost soil is poured mixed with ash. It is filled with water, as in the photo, and closed with a lid or film.

Periodically, the film is removed and the contents are mixed. The resulting slurry needs to be watered around the plants. The first feeding can be done three days after planting the seedlings. During this time, it is already clear which plants have started, which ones need to be replaced.

Important! In the beginning, the growth of Robin Hood saplings may stop. This is normal, since all internal plant resources are directed towards the formation of the root system.

Therefore, it is not recommended to pour fertilizer under the bush; an incompletely fermented mixture can burn the roots and stems.

Everything about the rules for feeding eggplant is described in this video:

Care

In the process of eggplant growth, it is necessary to remove the lower yellowed leaves, and periodically spray it to prevent diseases.

The eggplant watering procedure is repeated every time, as soon as the topsoil dries up a little. First you need to clear the beds of weeds. The row spacing is deepened by throwing the soil onto the bed itself.This must be done carefully so that the gardening tool does not damage the plants. Fertilizer is scattered between the eggplants and only then can water be used for irrigation. Furrows on both sides are closed with dampers - the water must completely saturate the beds.

Reviews of gardeners

Evgeniya, 43 years old, Vologodskaya Oblast

Our family cannot imagine winter without eggplant caviar... After listening to the reviews of gardeners about this culture, I decided not to mess with eggplants - I always bought vegetables at the market. A neighbor literally forced me a few bushes of Robin Hood eggplant seedlings. She praised this variety so much that I tried to plant one bed in the garden. All of the 15 bushes took over. I planted them at the end of May, and a month later the first fruits were removed. The variety is very unusual in appearance and taste. Beautiful lilac-lilac color, plump, fleshy fruits. Pleased with the taste of Robin Hood fruit. The harvest was enough for caviar, even dried a little. Inspired by the result, I decided to prepare a good bed with fertile soil for this eggplant variety in advance. And to speed up the process, we will definitely put a film greenhouse in the yard for growing Robin Hood seedlings.

Anton, 50 years old, Bryansk region

With the advent of their own plot of land, there was a desire to set up a large garden, and that there was a greenhouse. My horticultural activity started with growing greenery under plastic. During this time, I "ennobled" my poor clay soil. For two years in a row he scattered fertilizers, brought in manure, dug up. I built a greenhouse in a sunny place and decided that this year I would definitely plant eggplants. Since I had no experience, the first thing I did was to study varieties, read reviews. I chose Robin Hood, as he seemed to me the most unpretentious. In the fall, I finished building a greenhouse and immediately bought the seeds of this eggplant variety. On the package there was a photo of a ripe fruit of a beautiful color and shape, and this helped me finally decide on the choice of the variety. In the greenhouse, I made a pile of compost, humus and fallen leaves, watered it and covered it with foil. He came in and shoveled several times. By the spring, when it was time to sow eggplants, a beautiful, crumbly soil turned out. At the end of February, the seeds were germinated and planted in pots. Since young plants need a lot of light, I put a box with seedlings on the window, and hung a lamp on top. We ascended quickly, as indicated in the description on the package. I bought fertilizer in the form of tablets in the store, diluted it with water and watered it every three days. After a month and a half, there were beautiful seedlings in the pots, each with 5-6 leaves. I planted it in my greenhouse, poured ammonium nitrate in the aisle. They were accepted very well, after a month the first fruits were removed. We often cook vegetable stews, eggplant is not complete here. The taste of the fruits of the Robin Hood variety is beyond competition - the pulp is absolutely not bitter. Next year I will definitely try to plant eggplants in the garden - the land will be ready by that time.

Maria, 38 years old, Cheboksary

Among all the varieties of eggplant that grow in my greenhouse, this one is the only one that pleases with one hundred percent germination and abundant fruiting. Every year I plant 20 Robin Hood bushes on one 6-meter garden bed 60 cm wide. I make eggplant seedlings myself, from my seeds. I collect more than 2 kg of fruits from each seedling per season. And I leave the most beautiful of them for seeds. For our family, the eggplant harvest is enough for caviar and for other preparations.