This elegant, delicately striped, vivid purple eggplant tastes as good as it looks. The lovely fruit is 7-10cm long, has a mild flavor and fairly thin skin. The plant itself is around 75cm. Gorgeous in both garden and kitchen!

Characteristics

Annual vegetable
Can be grown in pots outdoor from February or indoor year round
Vegetable is purple with white stripes, has a sweet flavour and is used for cooking
Max Height is 75 cm
Max Width is 40 cm

Care

Soil :	Light Soil and should always be moist
Sunlight :	Sunny to half shade
Fertilize :	as prescribed on fertilizer's package
Maintenance :	Plant 45 cm apart and Remove some suckers
Health :	Good disease resistance

Botanical

Genus :	Solanum
Family :	Solanaceae
Species:	Melongena
Cultivar :	Barney

The Barney Eggplant