Rossa di Rotonda
Variety
Rossa di Rotonda
created by Gioventu at 27.07.2022
Features
Color
red
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Description
An original old variety from Turkey. Probably came to Italy during the wars at the end of the 19th century. It is more resistant to cold and disease than the traditional eggplant. It is the size of an apple, red-orange and round. More pungent in taste than eggplant, slightly more bitter.
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
No growing tips available for this plant.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Medium (loamy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Plant distance
40 cm
Row spacing
40 cm
Seeding depth
1 cm
Companion Plants
Basil
Bean ((Scarlet) runner bean)
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Bean (Hyacinth bean / Lablab-bean)
Bean (Lima Bean)
Bean (Runner bean)
Beetroot
Black salsify
Borage
Buddleja / Butterfly Bushes
Carrots
Catnip
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chard
Chickpea
Chives
Comfrey
Common marigold
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Coriander / Cilantro
Currant
Daisies
Dill
Garden cosmos / Mexican aster
Garlic
Garlic chives
Gooseberry
Grasses - Other
Lettuce (Common chicory)
Lettuce (Endive / Escarole / Erisée)
Lettuce (Lamb's lettuce)
Lettuce (Lettuce)
Lettuce (Puntarelle / Cicoria di catalogna / Cicoria asparago)
Lettuce (Radicchio / Italian chicory)
Lettuce (Sugar loaf)
Melissa
Onion
Onion (Spring onion)
Oregano
Parsnip
Pea
Phlox, flame flower
Rudbeckia (Coneflower / Black-eyed-susans)
Savory
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
Spirea
Strawberry
Sunflower
Sweet pea
Tagetes / Marigolds
Thyme
Yarrow
Antagonistic Plants
Abyssinian cabbage / Ethiopian mustard
Aubergine / Eggplant
Begonias
Blueberry
Broccoli
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage (Cabbage)
Cabbage (Pointed cabbage)
Cabbage (red cabbage)
Cabbage (Savoy cabbage)
Cauliflower
Chili
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Collard greens
Collard greens (Kale)
Collard greens (Tuscan kale / Dinosaur kale / Palm tree kale)
Common mugwort
Corn / Maize
Elderberry
Fennel
Florence fennel / Finocchio
Forsythia
Funk
Geranie/Pelargonie
Grasses - Bamboos
Grasses - reeds, cattails, bulrushes
Hazelnut
Hellebores
horse chestnut
Hydrangea / Hortensia
Ivy
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Larkspur
Lavender
Lovage
Lupine / Bluebonnet
Make
Maples
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Nightshades (Other)
Pak Choi
Pepper / Paprika
Potato
Privet
Purple bellflower, silver bellflower
Quadriceps
Rapeseed
Rapeseed - Sheer cabbage / Siberian cabbage
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Raspberry
Rhododendron
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sage
Sea coal
Stem herbs
Succulents
Sweet woodruff / Sweetscented bedstraw
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Vegetable cabbage - Forage cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - Ribbed cabbage / Portuguese cabbage
Vegetable cabbage - wild cabbage / ancient cabbage
Walnut family
Weigela
Willows
Women's coats
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Root Rot
Septoria
Grey mold
Downy mildew
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Powdery mildews
Pests
Thrips
Spider mites
Land snails
Caterpillars
Leaf-miner flies
Cabbage white
Ten-lined potato beetle
Cutworms
Aphids
White fly
