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Last summer I posted pictures of my "wonder egg" plant which is a plant with fruit that really looks and feels like chicken eggs. I was only able to harvest a few seeds, so not enough to share.
I wanted to let you know that WalMart has Wonder Egg kits on sale this week for $4.96. It includes a bonus of Tiny Tim tomato seeds. I remember that they also sold these kits last year just before Easter. I believe the kit includes a plastic pot, some soil and the seeds.
Hope this helps... Lynne
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A call to my WalMart and it doesn't have the egg plant either. I hate that. If I can get to Charlotte next week, I'll check there. What a cool plant.
By the way... I don't know if my WalMart has them either - I saw them in their flyer in the newspaper today...
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Cricket
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You might want to look around before buying them. Our local store sells Easter Egg plant seed packets for just under $2 CDN (including tax). If anyone would like me to pick some up and send them out, please PM me. Or you can order them yourself online at
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Well.....a month or so ago I was thrilled to open a letter from Cricket and find a pack of these seeds inside.
There are not many in the pack, but if you can't find them and want a few of these seeds, I will be happy to share. You might just get 3 or 4 seeds, but I guess that would better than NO seeds!
Cindy
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Nope,not at my local Wally's either.I had to go to the super duper store 40 miles away.Good grief I hate hiking in that place.I really want this plant.
btw,don't bother braving the chemical fertilizer stench in lawn and garden.oh no,you have to take a lonnnng walk to the food section.It's in the Easter aisle.Did I mention ,I really want this plant.
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Our local store appears to be keeping them in stock this season and it's not a problem for me to pick up more. PM me if you want Easter Egg (a.k.a. Wonder Egg) seeds.
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My egg plants aren't a wonder at all. They always seem to kick the bucket before the egg is "laid"! My aunt has the same results that I do. I am glad that someone was able to show me what they are supposed to look like!
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Hay all just though i would let you know these eggs are not to eat.i would hate to loose some of my garden friends.wallmart has them here there in the garden shop i just bought me one today it comes with four seeds and some tiny tim tomotos also four seeds and a littel spounge like pot you just add water then plant the seed. they sell for$4.96 a peace.
i got this off a web site. Easter Egg Plant Ornamental Golden Eggs Easy to grow, this plant is suitable for not just the garden, but containers as well. Unique and interesting plants produce an abundance of egg-shaped non-edible fruits. As this fruit matures it turns from a white to a golden yellow.
Great for containers
Ornamental plant only - not to be injested.
Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. your friend in gardening.mike57
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I got mine as well. I love it... the packaging was cracking me up because it's made for non-farmers like you wouldn't believe.... but the instructions are actually for a plant which is NOT suitable for beginners....
In other words, I should do fine but, the 8 year old who it's purchased for will not do fine. It's geared toward Easter.
If I'm able to get any seeds, I'm happy to share.
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Mine had 12 seeds in it so i planted 2 seeds in the peet pelits bought extra to plant the rest hope to get six plants to grow.i think there a real pretty plant.i worked all morning planting seeds in peet pelits hope 2 have abought 200 plants to set out at the end of the mounth.your friend in gardening Mike57
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i just got back from walmart and i just got one of those egg plant kits now i'm wondering something...it doesn't have any drainage holes in the bottom of the egg planter thingy so won't the plant be waterlogged?? thanks for helping a dumb blonde lol
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OK. I did some investigating. The plant is supposed to go into a 3 gallon pot once it's got it's first set of true leaves. It is apparently frost tender so you'll lose it in the winter if you don't bring it in. I live in LA so I'll probably plant it in the ground once it's large enough. By the way, I recommend snipping the netting off the peat pellet when you go to plant it in something bigger.
It needs full sun and blooms in late summer, early fall. The flowers are purple. It grows to 12" - 18" and should be spaced about a foot apart. Average watering needs. Do not overwater.
To harvest seeds, the fruit needs to be significantly overripe (I think I know what that means).
Also, here's the good news! You CAN eat them! But aparently it is REALLY not recommended because they're so damned bitter. I've found a number of sites saying that they're edible. The recommendation is to prepare them like you would eggplant.
So, they're not poisonous but they don't taste great.
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Do you have any information on the wonder egg plant? I can't find anything on the Web except other people's questions about it. It is grown from a seed inside one of those plastic two-part eggs and has some sort of edible fruits on it. I have seen it sold in drugstores in the past.
The plant you're thinking of goes by the more formal name Solanum melongena and is a member of the eggplant family. The fruits, or "eggs," cannot be plucked and eaten -- they are very bitter. But you can prepare them in much the same way you would eggplants.
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I have read all of this and now thats it I gotta get one of these things,lol. Just to see if I can grow it,lol. Will start lookin for it tomorrow. Definetly got to have one,lol. Plants: 129 | From: Illinois, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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I'm right there with you. I almost don't care that it'll be bitter!
I bought one as a gift for a girlfriend and she was sooo depressed that the plant was only decorative. She kept saying in a lilting voice, "But I wanna eat 'em..."
She's totally thrilled now that I've found that link! And I am too... Because I wanna eat 'em!
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ok, i'm going to find a link to a recipe that i have made using a very bitter relative of cucumbers called "bitter melon". it will work with your wonder eggs 'cause you can put egg plant in it.
and it tastes good and the bitterness is mostly gone...
if you fry it up like egg plant, you are in for a rude awakening unless you like alum water... i don't, but know folks who do!
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I need to get a wonder egg plant.....I've never seen anything like it before......Every garden needs a little comedic relief--and this looks like just what the doctor ordered.....too funny. Too bad I didn't think to look for it yesterday when I was at walmart......
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Jiffymouse
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here ya go, it is Filipino and called pinakbet and is eaten with rice.
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I bought a kit for a gilfriend of mine. I think we'll do the same and bite right in just 'cause it won't kill us LOL!!! Heck... I've bitten into green tomatoes before... didn't kill me but I was swishing and spitting for hours!!!
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Too bad we're all so far apart where they won't be "ripe for eatin'" at the same time, or we'd have a live "biting into the raw wonder egg" party here, and all do it at the same time!
We'd be spittin' simultaneously all over the world, huh?
Cindy
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They weren't fried... My brother played a prank on me and told me how good they were. I guess I should be thankful that they weren't worms or slugs.
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I'm so excited.....I was strolling though the garden center in wallyworld looking for a way to spend some money, and there in a lonely corner were the wonder egg kits!!!! So I bought one of course......I can't wait to see what they are really like--as soon as it warms up a bit more I'll start the seeds out....
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Hey, guys! I found another great little reference. Eggplants It states specifically that both unripe and ripe fruits are edible. (Down at the bottom.) I keep checking because they are members of the Nightshade family. But then... so are tomatoes!!!
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quote: Is the whole purpose of this plant to get seeds from or what?
The purpose in growing these is to see the stunned look on friends and family when they see what looks and feels like "real" chicken eggs growing on a plant.
Trust me, it's fun!
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"The purpose in growing these is to see the stunned look on friends and family when they see what looks and feels like "real" chicken eggs growing on a plant.
Trust me, it's fun!"
It does look cool alright and I have just got to find one. LOL.
Thanx Lynne.
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Hi my seeds came up today i had 12 seeds in my egg kit so i planted 2 in each of the 6 peat pellits so i should have at least a few to plant in my flower beds.think i am gonna tell all my friends that i have a mixed up rooster that cant tell a hen from a plant and that this is the result from it do you think they will buy that it should make for a good laugh i think.your friend in gardening.mike57
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