This plant has the scientific name solanum insanum, belongs to the Solanaceae family such as tomato, pepper and potato, and has a large amount of nutrients and substances favorable to the body.
A curious fact about this vegetable, is that in ancient times, it was classified as inedible or poisonous due to its particular purple color, although after a while it came out of its discredit as a bad fruit and was taking place worldwide.
This vegetable is easy to grow, it is more I have some plants in my garden and generate good harvest, if you dare to create seedbeds of this vegetable, you must follow the following recommendations:
• You can start the crop with seedlings or germinate your own seeds .
• If you choose the seedbed like me, put 1-2 seeds in each hole.
• Bury your seeds 1 cm or 0.5 cm deep.
• Water them cautiously, because if you add a lot of water you can rot the seeds and not germinate the plants.
• You can plant directly on a plot or pots, if you choose the second option, when you reach about 15 centimeters, you must transplant them and within a period of 70 - 90 days you will be able to collect your first aubergines.
• It is advisable, if the plants measure a meter and a half it is necessary that you put some guides so that they do not fall to the ground.
It is very important that you take care of your crop, as it is susceptible to pests such as aphids, potato beetle, hoila, nematodes, red spider, among others.
The uses of eggplant is not only limited to the kitchen, this vegetable is very appreciated to maintain health, since it is rich in chlorogenic acid, powerful antioxidant, which has generated great benefits in subjects of overweight and high cholesterol.
In addition to this, this vegetable is good to control some body alterations such as rheumatism, fluid retention, abdominal fat and to relieve skin burns.
Friends the eggplant in addition to all its benefits delights us with its unequaled flavor with which you can prepare a lot of dishes, my favorite is the aubergine pastiche. Where you put layers of this vegetable either grilled, fried or steamed and you put stuffed with vegetables or any type of meat, topped with béchamel and Parmesan cheese, it is very rich and easy.
For all these reasons I recommend 100% that you cultivate this versatile vegetable.
Thank you friends, I hope you enjoy this article, and the photos of my authorship where I show you the aubergine plants of my garden and the aubergine pastiche that I make these days, very rich and easy.
