This is garden egg and also known as African eggplant. In my side, nasarawa state people doesn't farm garden egg much unlike Jos plateau, Kano, Kaduna and other northern state of Nigeria. This year we decided to farm garden egg, farming it for the first to have an experience and know how it works.
Garden egg farming is very good and doesn't have much stress. It doesn't required much fertilizer or any expensive chemicals for it to grow well and healthy.
Garden egg farm is a multiple farming system, the farmers can harvest it more than two times in a year or even more depending on how it was planted down to the harvesting.
Is very cheap and accessible and also contain minerals which helps to reduce malnutrition. Garden egg is a vegetarian, and people eat vegetables a lot especially in Nigeria. People's eat garden egg raw, make it with stew and even combined it with other ingredients for soup. Garden egg is a vegetable crop, and it can grow I different kind of farmland respectively.
Farming garden egg doesn't cost much, is a low start-up farming system and rapid in harvesting within a space of four months. Other people will dry the garden egg and make out of it dried powder. In other state in Nigeria like the southern part of Igbo, a local traditional tribe that loves garden egg so much as a vegetable and garden egg is also included in their traditional marriage and ceremony as a gift that symbolize hospitality and acceptance into the bride family.
This garden egg are of different types or varieties, some are green or white. Ours particularly is green garden egg. Though is bitter a bit but very nutritional and contains good taste.
Medically garden egg is recommended by doctors or physicians to people suffering from diabetes because frequent consumption of garden egg maintain and controll and regulate blood flow properly to keep the levels of glucose in a normal or stable level from being attack from heart failure and high blood pressure.
We all know eating vegetables is very good for healthy condition, vegetables makes your body system to function well and eating garden egg regularly keeps your eyes fuction well.
So, when we got to our garden egg farm today, we noticed is it still germinating and yielding fruits, other have not germinate yet. Even though we didn't go to farm with the intention of harvesting the garden egg because we know by now it won't be ripen for harvesting. Looking at the garden egg possibly in three weeks it will be ready for harvesting. We just hope after three weeks we will come and harvest it bountifully. We plugged just little of the garden egg that we will eat on our way going home from the farm and few we will share with our siblings at home.