Park Seed Variety of Eggplant Vegetable Seeds, Plant Seeds, Easy to Grow, Perfect for Harvesting, Icicle F1, Pack of 25

It's going to be another beautiful spring in your garden! We are delighted to celebrate 150 years of gardening friendship with you! "Your success and pleasure are more to Park than your money." The motto of our founder, George W. Park, has been the inspiration for Park Seed Company ever since its 1868 founding at the kitchen table of a 15-year-old boy who hoped to sell seeds from his own garden for a little pocket money. Mr. Park considered gardening a spiritual delight as well as a useful and pleasant activity. In early catalogs, he encouraged gardeners to form clubs and swap seeds, even printing nature poetry they had written. His catalogs united gardeners in remote rural areas, and by 1918, Park Seed Company had 180,000 customers. Today our gardeners number in the millions, yet we still adhere to Mr. Park's original motto. We may be connecting online through social media rather than handwritten letters, but the spirit and the result is the same: bringing the joys of gardening to as many people as possible.

• An F1 hybrid, Icicle is a fruit vegetable that is highly ornamental and suitable for an edible landscape. The plant sets small star-shaped violet flowers followed by glossy white eggplants.
• Cylindrical and uniform in size, the fruits typically grow 7 inches long and weigh 7.7 ounces, larger than other white eggplants. The fruits also stay pure white, without yellowing like most white eggplants do, and have improved texture and flavor.
• Eggplant is a good source of dietary fiber and contains phytonutrients, particularly anthocyanins and phenolic acids.
• Usually grown as an annual, Icicle, an herbaceous tender perennial, is a member of the nightshade family (Solanaceae), which contains plants that typically grow in temperate to tropical regions. Icicle plants have fewer spines than most eggplants, making them easier to harvest.
• The plants are large and sturdy, but their vigorous, spreading habit and heavy yields of 8 to 9 fruits per plant may require staking or caging for support. Icicle can also be grown in an 18- to 24-inch container.