The garden is always changing.  The tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchinis are finished, and now the eggplants are taking off.  We have already harvested 55, and you can see that the bushes are loaded.  

 

These eggplants come from the country of Taiwan.  They grow 2 inches in diameter and up to 14 inches long.  I like these best, because I don’t leave them on the plants too long.  I’ve tried growing the kind that you see in the grocery store, but I always left them on the plants waiting for them to get as big as the store ones.  By then they were all seedy.  Not these, they are supposed to be picked small.  

 

The good thing about eggplants, besides their deliciousness, is that they don’t all come at once.  We have 10 bushes, and we can pick 4 or 5 at a time, enough to make something like lasagna or Parmesan, and then next week we can pick more.  

 

We love them cooked on the grill with lots of spices.  Then we freeze the pieces, and use them in the winter, really stretching our harvest.  It’s also nice in the winter to remember how beautiful the garden was in the summer.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!