How to Fertilize Brinjal plants - Vegetable gardening at home

• Apply a balanced fertilizer like cattle compost twice during the growing season. 

• Fertilizer to be applied through side dressing, a process of digging a 6-inch trench around each plant and applying a fertilizer to it to keep nutrients available to the plant on an as-needed basis.

• Side dress again in about two to three weeks.

• You can also fertilize your seedlings with vermicompost tea

• As the fruit grows, it will need regular replenishment of nutrients in the soil.

• A good-quality 10-20-20 fertilizer is used for this purpose, which contains twice as much phosphorus and potassium than nitrogen.