Vegetables · Warm
Eggplant
Solanaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 50 cm
- USDA zones
- 6a–11a
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 9 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- raised-bed mixAlso okay:loamy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Aubergine is the hothead of the nightshades. In temperate raised beds only in the warmest spot, possibly under fleece. Plant 2-3 plants — yield is often meagre. Snack varieties are more reliable than giant ones.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
These plants improve the soil / free the slot early:
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage