Hang out with us in the garden for our biggest organic eggplant harvest ever, along with harvest and eating tips. Grow, harvest and eat your own food along with us!
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Good morning CaliKim. Everything looks fresh and lovely. – and those eggplants look particularly good. These videos just keep getting better and better. But of course that's to be expected from a talented gardener such as yourself. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful Saturday and weekend.😉😉 🌼🌻🌻🌹🌹
Slice the eggplant in rounds, put into an egg wash and then bread crumbs which has been seasoned, then fry. Eat with chutney! Delicious!
I make ratatouille to use up my eggplants and other summer harvest vegetables.
Such a huge harvest end of October, wow! I guess the grill will be fired up today. 😉
They are absolutely beautiful Kim!! I love how eggplant look, but the funny thing is that I have never eaten it before!! That is crazy, I know, cause I love all veggies, but am unsure of what to do with it and how to cook it, so have never grown it before. Maybe I will have to give it a go next year!! Love that you are still able to wear a summer top! I've had to pull out my long sleeve flannels 😂 !! Happy gardening and have a wonderful day!! Thanks for sharing!
You have to try baingan ka bharta. (Baingan is eggplant in hindi ) you ll love it ..
I learned how to pickle eggplant and store in the fridge. It is so delicious on Crackers for charcuterie. You can find YouTube videos on how to make it.
Hi nice video I'm going to my dog a little bit of eggplant thanks
I had a bumper crop of black beauty eggplant as well. I like to use some in stews/casseroles, and feel like they add an earthiness and make the meal more filling somehow.
I love the eggplant dips like Baba ghanoush that is my favorite way to eat it.
My eggplant were not big producers for me. I have a couple plants with fruit on them, and will be making a final harvest in a week or two. However, this morning I harvested a bunch of peppers and snow peas. Deer have been feasting on my pepper plants since the frost and they are heavily damaged. The remnants of three plants have been removed and put inside my compost bin. In a few days, more will be following. If I am lucky, I will get two or three more weeks out of them. I may go ahead and pull them up Monday, and start more winter crops, radishes, Komatsuna, tatsoi, Later Nagasaki Cabbage, spinach, carrots, Swiss Chard, kohlrabi, red mustard, and Chijimisai. I would do it today or tomorrow, but there is rain in the forecast for the next two days, and it is cold outside. My Roma tomatoes have a bunch of little tomatoes on them, my Dad's Sunset Tomatoes are starting to blush, and my purple top turnips are starting to bulb up. War of the Lords officially releases Tuesday, and Space Pirate Scrooge on November 15th. I'm taking a week or two off from writing, then onto the next project, Space Race 2525.
In my culture, we cook it with scrambled eggs. You roast the eggplant to help remove the skin then you mashed the eggplant into small pieces. You cook the eggplant first and then you add the eggs.
I am so jealous. I have a eggplant small tree and it bloomed a lot but the eggplants never came. It’s still blooming and then the flowers just droop. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I fertilized and water it and it just didn’t produce fruit. I’m sad
My 1.5 year old Black Beauty Eggplant almost got taken by spider mites this summer. After having yellow, cracked fruit, I fought them off and nourished it back to health. It's back better than ever!!
Not a eggplant question but as it is getting cooler at night do I need to cover tomatoe plants. Chadwicks.
I planted 10 eggplants this year (trying new varieties) so I enjoyed making Eggplant Ratatouille and I froze seveeal meals for later this winter. I also dehydrate eggplants and use them in soups and to make vegan burgers or meatballs.
I also add eggplant when I make hummas, along with roasted red peppers and garlic. It's so good!
Babaghanoug (Egyptian starter dish): Eggplant, yoghurt, mint, cumin and tahini – serve chilled with tortilla wraps.
Eggplant and sausage casserole!
Eggplant Parmesan recipe was amazing this summer and I had planted your petite black beauty I believe. I started from seed.
I love baba ganoush as well.