Your garden setup looks very nice :) You might want to rethink your intention to plant eggplant at this time of year. It's a warm weather crop, and the best planting time for it is in the spring. If you haven't already, you should check out the Urban Farm Planting Calendar for a good guide on what to plant when.

Yea I saw that calendar. I was looking at the endive line not the eggplant apparently. Do you generally start from seeds outdoors with your winter crop or is it a better idea to do seedlings?

Yea I saw that calendar. I was looking at the endive line not the eggplant apparently. Do you generally start from seeds outdoors with your winter crop or is it a better idea to do seedlings?

Tomatoes and peppers in same category as eggplant -- best grown during the summer. Everything else on the list will be great winter crops, however they will not germinate until soil temps are much much lower than now. Nights in the 70's is still too hot for most of those, days in the 70's is more what they like. Not sure when that happens in Phoenix... it was 116 a few days ago when I was passing through!

Alternatively you could start everything inside a month or two before you anticipate the right weather conditions, then plant them out to get a jump on things.