Please find for sale 15+ fresh Turkey Berry seeds. Also known as the Thai Pea Eggplant, devil's fig, pea eggplant, platebrush and susumber. Turkey Berry is a very popular, tasty and healthy ingredient in Thai cooking particularly vegetarian curries.

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Pea eggplants should be grown in the UK in the same way as aubergines. Unless you have a sheltered & warm spot for direct planting into the soil, they are best grown in medium sized containers in the sunniest spots - patios are ideal.

Sowing Guide for Optimum Germination

1) Sow seeds in late winter

2) Sow seeds in trays of sieved compost mixed with vermiculite (I have for sale in the Accessories section of my shop)

3) Compost should be moist but not wet

4) Seeds should be individually sown then gently pressed into surface of the compost to ensure a good contact.

5) Sieve a fine layer of compost (circa 2mm) on top of the seeds

6) Keep tray in a warm place eg on a window sill above a radiator, ideally 22-24c

7) Do not allow to dry up - best to water from below by placing seed tray in another water tight tray

8) Seedlings should emerge within 10 days to two weeks, at which point they can be left to grow on before potting on into 7cm pots 

9) Keep warm side with plenty of natural light and pot on again into 12cm  containers as soon as the roots can be seen at the drainage holes. The plants can go into their final positions once they fill these pots, though you will need to make sure you can sustain a cosy environment eg on a patio and once all risk of frost has passed.

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In the UK we do not have as long a  growing season as the Mediterranean so we can cheat a little bit with aubergines and pea eggplants by taking cuttings at the end of the growing season and overwintering them in pots - gaining several weeks at least compared with planting fresh seeds each year. Here on the south coast we do not have to do this, but it may well be worthwhile the further north you are. 


Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedling poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Don’t Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and YouTube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends. The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.


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