warm season crop tender to frost

Eggplant

Timing everywhere hangs on one number: the local last spring frost. Enter your town for exact dates where you garden.

Days to maturity

70–85 d

Frost

tender

Soil temp

≥ 18 °C

Southern-hemisphere places mirror the calendar — their season straddles the new year. Equatorial highlands have no frost at all, so the limiting factor becomes rainfall, not cold. See eggplant dates for your place →