Eggplant
Diseases and pests
You should plant flax next to your potatoes!
We've all had our troubles in the vegetable garden! And from one year to the next, they're never the same. Diseases, parasites, fungi...all these problems can go so far as to wipe out your crops. There are, of course, solutions,...
16 April 2025
Diseases and pests
Why are the leaves on my aubergines curling up?
The aubergine is a vegetable that we love to plant in our vegetable garden. It is the main ingredient in moussaka, a Greek speciality, or in ratatouille. But it can also be made into fritters, tarts or caviar. But it...
28 June 2025
Diseases and pests
Bordeaux mixture against mildew: why not use it in the vegetable garden?
If you've ever done a bit of gardening, you may have heard of Bordeaux mixture. This mixture of water, lime and copper sulphate is a fungicide used to prevent certain diseases that can infect plants in your garden. However, although...
6 September 2025
Eggplant
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Fruiting vegetables
- Botanical Family : Solanaceae
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Full Sun
- Frost Hardiness : Frost Sensitive
- Cultivation Difficulty : Challenging
- Adult Height : 70 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Recommended
- Sowing Depth : 1 cm
- Plant Spacing : 60 cm
- Row Spacing : 70 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Moderate
- Water Requirements : High
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Neutral
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Insect-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing