In this video, I show you where eggplants came from comparing one of the original pea eggplants to modern-day varieties.
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Really cool vid , Mark. I like hearing about the origins of veggies, for example the origins of corn/maize, or onions, pepper, coffee.., etc.
I would love to see a vid on the origins of the apple. how it was discovered, cultivated from a "crab" apple and domesticated/ hybridized into what we nowadays call an apple.
In India we called that as Sundakai in Tamil language. Especially in south India we use that fruit in spicy curry. and the scientific name is Solanum torvum. My mom like that very much.
Oh my gosh… where do you get a 2000 year old eggplant crop? That is soooo cool. I love the dinosaur names!! LOL
I live in Sri Lanka and these are a quite popular vegetable here, in fact, we can purchase these at supermarkets and vegetable markets, also most of the home gardeners are growing these. As you told fruits are bitter when matured, so the trick is to harvest them early. if fruits are matured we boil them for a few minutes, that will remove most of the bitterness.
Avegansawus :DDD
the plant in the video at about 3 minutes in is woolly nightshade(Solanum mauritianum.). The pea egg plant in other parts of the video are different.
i want to graft an eggplant onto good old spikey and see if it makes an eggplant tree…
Sawasdee from Thailand, even here in hot summer i still facing problem planting it in urban environment. But would love to try harder on the eegplant. 🙂
Low-dose nicotine like you get from eggplants and tomatoes is suspected to protect against Parkinson's Disease.
They lived at time of Selfus Sufficientus Metus :'D XDDD
For such a small berry, it sure does have a lot of seeds. No wonder it gets everywhere.
Devil Fig. Bloody pest 🙂
Try “wambatu moju” recipe made with the purple variety. It’s so delicious with rice.
Those were wild tobacco plants that grow everywhere
in my country this is a delicacy if you use coconut with the pea eggplants you wont get any bitterness
here are some subbed recipies
curry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svmq7Y9xV_Y
or you can cook with adding scraped coconuts like a sambol.
and here is some of the health benefits of it
http://www.instituteofayurveda.org/plants/plants_detail.php?i=1264&s=Local_name
I thought u ment my d-
Karen peoples like that.
It's not thai vegetable It's Indian vegetable originated in Indian subcontinent and oldest known eggplant recipe is eggplant ginger curry from Indus valley civilisation nearly 6000-4500 years ago
there grew like around our property without no one sowing them, we thought these were poisonous lol we never touched them then i saw a chinese food vlogger cooking them
It seems you haven't done a proper dedicated video on top tips on growing aubergines?
Vegansaurus lol
Loved your video, but hate Eggplants. Its a vegetable I never ate much.
I just realised the dinosaurs u mentioned rnt real. I have been searching for quite a while trying to figure out what these dinosaur looked like and now Ik they rnt real
Great video!! You can also graft tomatoes, eggplants and peppers to this as a rootstock. This allows you to have perennial plants and makes them more resistant to disease and pests.
I dont like susumber. The first variety shown with the thorns r only over bitter when they stay on the tree too long. When u think they r a bit young it's d right time to pick them. Super good with salted cod fish. The leaves r used for medicine in Jamaica. We rub it in our palms and squeeze the juice out. Or we use it to treat some skin conditions buy rubbing the leaves in our hands and adding salt.
Bell pepper