Eggplant picturesApprentice Photoshop Pictures Contest - 24 image entries
Contest Directions: Photoshop this eggplant (CLICK to download) any way you wish. Examples may include merging this eggplant with some with some objects, fruits, vegetables, or animals, placing the eggplant into some environment, movies, paintings. These are just some ideas.
You have 3 days to submit your entry. Submitting it early will give you plenty of time to read the critique comments and edit your image accordingly.
Many thanks to Keb for sponsoring this contest and to Stock Exchange for providing the source image.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $1.5, 2nd place: $0.9 , 3rd place: $0.6
Started: 2/25/2008 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 2/29/2008 7:15:00 AM
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| | Eggplants (Latin - Solanum melongena, or Latin - S. esculentum) -- kind of perennial grass plants of sort Solanum, vegetable planting.
Eggplant grew in wild form in Eastern parts of India but already more 1500 years ago, eggplant was cultivated and grown in China and in the countries of Central Asia. Thanks to Arabs, this vegetable made way into Africa and then spread across to European Mediterranean.
External appearance:
Eggplant is a grass plant with height ranging from 40 to 150 cm. Leaves are large with alternate leaf arrangement, thorn-rough and in some sorts -- with violet shade. Flowers are telianthus, violet in color with diameter 2.5 to 5 cm; single or in inflorescences -semi-umbrellas from 2 to 7 flowers. Eggplant grows between July and September.
Eggplant fruit --big round-shaped berry, pear-shaped or of cylindrical shape; Surface of the fruit is mat-finish or glossy. Fruit of eggplant reaches upto length of 70 cm, 20 cm in diameter and weighs from 0.4 to 1 kg. Color of ripe fruits range from grey-green to brownish-yellow. After complete ripening, they become rough and tasteless and therefore, are used in food when the brinjals are not ripe enough. When the brinjals are not ripe, color varies from light-violet to dark-violet. Seeds of brinjals are very tiny, flat and light brown in color; Brinjals ripen in August-October.
Cultivation:
In subtropical and mild climatic zones, eggplant is cultivated as an annual plant by seedling manner. Eggplant penetrated into Russia in XVII--XVIII centuries from Iran. At present, it is cultivated in open grounds in southern parts such as Krasnodar, Stavropol Territory and in Rostov region.
Eggplant is one of the most demanding cultivars to cultivation conditions. It is sensitive to temperature fluctuations: fall or sharp increase in temperatures causes casting of flower buds, blossoms and embryos. Best temperature for its growth and development is +25 to +28 °C; optimum humidity of soil during bearing -- 80 percent of total moisture capacity. At temperatures of less than +15 °С, seeds do not sprout. At negative or low positive temperatures for longer periods, the plant perishes. Stringent requirements of eggplant are even applicable to light. In cloudy weather conditions or in heavy densification, plants grow slowly and form small fruits. Eggplant grows very well on light, well fertilized soils. It is grown after winter wheat, cucumber, onions, bean cultivars and cabbage. Maintenance consists of soil loosening, weeding of weeds, watering, additional fertilization, fight against illnesses and pests.
Main pests of eggplant are potato beetles and web-mites. Diseases-- dry decay, phytophthora and wilt.
Uses:
Eggplants are actively used in cookery of many countries around the world. Eggplants are fried, baked, stewed and eggplants can also be put in a grill and eggplants are used for preparation of eggplant salads and caviar.
Also, eggplant is a valuable raw vegetable for canning industry (eggplant caviar etc.). Fruits can be fried, stewed and marinated etc.
It is not recommended to use overripe eggplants in food preparations since good amount of solanine is present in them. Young fruits in technical ripeness phase are used in food preparations.
Fruits of eggplant contain:
* Solid substances 7.1 - 11 percent;
* Sugar 2.72 - 4 percent;
* Proteins 0.6 - 1.4 percent;
* Fats 0.1 - 0.4 percent.
and also salts of calcium, phosphorus, iron and considerable quantity of vitamins of group of B. Eggplant is rich with cellulose, which plays an important role in working of intestines. |
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