After a week or so of forgetting that I even had one precious eggplant plant growing in the boxes, this beautiful long fruit caught my eye yesterday, trying to hide behind a zucchini leaf. I planted a six pack of seeds for it and only one came up — now I can’t find the seed packet to tell you what variety it is, but I like it best of the three kinds I’ve tried in the last few years. Maybe next year I will try again.
The tomatoes: Brad’s Atomic Grape, my current favorite, since I don’t have any Sungolds to take the Sweetness Prize this year. And a little plum from my tree. Most of the plums I don’t get until they fall off, and as of this last week of August there are still unripe fruits on the trees! I’m trying to check for ripe ones every day. Yesterday I did enjoy a sweet and juicy one, and it was that stand-over-the-sink dripping kind of event that feels like summer.
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That’s an eggplant??
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I have never seen such a long and thin eggplant before!
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I always associate peaches with that stand-over-the-sink delight. I think the marketers for Juicy Fruit gum probably had that experience in their background.
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That eggplant had a mind of it’s own. Fun discovery!
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It’s fun, having your own produce!
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I love those kind of eggplant the best. Sungold tomatoes are sweet and this year its the winner in my garden as the best producer. Yes, nothing tastes better eating over the sink.
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I agree, the sungold are my fav, less acidic that the others growing in our garden this summer. Awesome eggplant!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an eggplant quite like yours. I’m glad you got at least one.
I haven’t heard of that variety of tomato either. Interesting what different kinds grow best in different areas of NA. Here in the Fraser Valley by far the preferred variety is Early Girl.
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Early Girl was our favorite for decades. But now in my new landscape, I have new conditions to work with, and am not sure I’ll manage to succeed with any regular sized tomatoes again….
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I have always loved plums. We had a damson plum tree on our farm years ago, but if you did not heavily spray it the bugs would eat so much of your fruit.
I have yet to even try growing eggplant possibly for the same reason, but yours does look interesting. Thankfully, we do have a sungold tomato plant that has done well this year, grown organically.
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