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Mark Anderson · 29-05-2007, 07:40 PM posted to rec.gardens

In article says...
5's will do, a little bigger is better. Treat as tomatoes and they'll
probably do fine. Ichiban and similar "Japanese eggplants" do better for me
in containers than their regular globe eggplant counterparts, fwiw.

They're Ichiban but this is what I needed to know. My tomatoes are all
in 20 gallon tubs so it looks like the eggplants will get those too. I
just didn't want to put them in a big container if they would waste the
space. I know people grow tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets but when I
experimented last year with growing them in 5 gallon buckets, the same
tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets produced a lot less than the ones grown in
the 20 gallon tubs.