Eggplants

When I first started my garden over a year ago I planted one eggplant seedling in a pot as a kind of experiment to see how it would go.  It did very well indeed so I decided I would definitely grow one this year too.  I have, in fact, got three different plants this time around.  The regular one, the Lebanese ones (long finger-shaped) and on a trip to Bunnings one day I came across one called a 'Fairy-tale' eggplant.

The regular one out back has been doing fantastically.  I have made several vegetarian moussakas with what it has produced as well as included some in one of our favourite dishes - roasted veggie quinoa salad.

The Lebanese one out front (in my pumpkin patch) is also doing swimmingly!  These ones I have added into my roast veggie frittata and are also delicious cut lengthways down the middle and lightly pan fried in some olive oil and garlic.

My little fairy-tale one in the ground out the back hasn't been doing so well though.  I think there may be a problem with my soil or something because it really has not grown much at all since I planted it.  With the recent heatwave I almost lost it too.  It got burnt and I really didn't think it was going to come back but this morning when I was perusing the garden I came across three little eggplants hiding under some leaves!

Much excitement hehe.

These are my other two eggplants - 

The left one currently has four coming and the lebanese one has more than 30.

From my experience growing eggplants seems fairly easy so I would encourage you to have a go!