Aubergine / Egg Plants .... Do you have much success ?

I grew them fairly successfully in Essex ( 20 years ago) in a greenhouse. 2-4 good fruit per plant. Required a reasonable summer. Discovered they don't freeze well.
Tried them in Devon for the first few years I was here and nothing. Decided they needed more sunshine than I got in a typical Devon summer.

 

Same here. Less than 3 good fruit each plant, either in GH or outside. Not quite worth growing.

 

I grow them every year, about six plants and as above I get 3-4 good sized fruits. These we generally make into Mousakas and freeze. Funnily enough I pulled one out last night for tea tonight.

But I always get more fruit than that, another 3 or 4 from each plant after main harvest, they just vary in size so are used mostly in Rattatouile, and again frozen.

They do need a long season and I will be sowing mine this weekend, actually a couple of weeks later than normal.

Steve...

 

I grew them last year in a self-watering container. The plant was outdoors on the deck all summer enjoying the sun. At the end of the season it was so large I had to tie it to the railings to support it. It produced so much fruit that we did not know what to do with it.

The photo is only one harvest, as there were multiple harvests during the season.

 

I gave up trying to grow them as they're such a white fly magnet.

 

Hope it is OK to "bump" an old thread. I've never grown aubergines before and have two plants in my greenhouse - in the same bucket of compost. Pics below:

Are they supposed to look like this or have they bolted/gone to seed? If they should just ditch them?

 

The plants in the photo look strange to me as they do not resemble any I have ever grown. I don't grow eggplant in the greenhouse as they draw aphids like a magnet. I only grow them outdoors having learned a lesson from trying them in the greenhouse once. I do grow then in self-watering containers but on my deck.

 

I can very easily transfer the pot (97p B&Q bucket!) outside the greenhouse - garden is very sunny with shelter between the greenhouse and fence.

 

Thank you. I've solved the mystery - I need to get my seedlings labelled correctly next year.
I found another plant in the greenhouse also labelled Aubergine:

...which looks entirely different from what I now believe to be "bolted" spinach! Oops.