Eggplant / aubergine
Berenjena · Aubergine
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- upright
- Roots
- medium depth
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- warm season
- Grows in
- ☀ summer beds (warm season)
- Feeds
- heavy feeder
Jobs in the bed
A plain neighbour: no special job.
Rotation
Do not return Solanaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
☀❄ Grows in a different season: not at the same time in the same bed.
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
⚠ Use caution
- ⚠ Tomatodon't cluster nightshades (shared blight & Colorado potato beetle)
- ⚠ Cornonce its silks dry, earworm moths (= tomato fruitworm) move on to nearby tomatoes, peppers & eggplants
- ⚠ Potatodon't cluster nightshades (shared blight & Colorado potato beetle)
- ⚠ Sorghumit is a preferred host of the corn earworm (= tomato fruitworm), so once its heads form, moths move on to nearby corn, tomatoes, peppers & eggplants
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ Marigold (Tagetes)Grown densely for a season, French-marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes; in greenhouses its scent keeps whiteflies off tomatoes Also deters beneficial insects; the "vs potato beetle" claim is unproven
- ✿ ZinniaStrong pollinator magnet; long flowering season
- ✿ BasilFits under tomatoes & peppers without competing; flowers attract bees