- You Will Get 178 Seeds Of Eggplant, Black Beauty Heirloom Vegetable Seeds. - Annual. - Produces edible fruit. - 2 feet tall. - Full sun. - Hi, the black beauty eggplant produces excellent bell shaped eggplant fruit that is 6.5 inches by 5 inches. It is purple-black in color, and weighs 1-3 lb. - Plant the seeds indoors in February or March 1/8" deep. - Then Plant outdoors as it warms up. - Requires warmth and light. - This is an heirloom seed that can be saved from the fruit it produces for the following year's seed. - Not a hybrid.