If you have come here by way of Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Birthday Giveaway, you will find details on my prize at this post - “ProBlogger Birthday Bash event: Nikas Peppermint Marshmallow Puff Pastries“.

Growing eggplants can be a speculative enterprise. I planted two types, purple and Turkish eggplants. The purples seem to go into suspended animation after sprouting and waited MONTHS before they got to a point where they are bearing fruits.

The Turkish eggplants were over-run but some very poorly behaved salad tomatoes that have terrorized me and my garden for months now. I will have to grow them again next year. I need to know what those are like.
Yesterday, I decided it was time to pick the first eggplant and see if it is any better than the bitter things you buy in the big-box stores.
