The ichibans are there too but I forgot to take a pic Before my battery died outside. After a bunch of fails, plants eaten by pests and destroyed by animals this summer, I’ve been a bit discouraged but I’m not quitting. Finding all these this morning and it being the plant I wanted from the most means to me that I did somewhat succeed at my first adventure in gardening. I will take what I learned to do and not to do for the next time. My fall plants are already looking much better than the summer. It was a crazy weather in my opinion, late spring, and through the summer here in zone 6B. It was an extremely hot and short summer. So I’d like to hope that they played a part. I’m making sure to be much more prepared next spring. Happy gardening.

by Piggie_Piggie_Smalls

8 Comments

  1. Healthy-Pitch-4425

    It gets better as you get more experience with your local growing environment! All of them are different, so the advice isn’t one size fits all. Congratulations on your eggplants, they’re so cute!

    Also try to remember that some of it is just the conditions in a given year. Some years will be better than others with you putting the same amount of effort in. Don’t be discouraged, friend! It’s all just a learning opportunity. 💖

  2. NPKzone8a

    Congratulations! Well done! Eggplant is a rewarding crop. It always seems like magic when they reach full size.

  3. Anneisabitch

    Whoo! You did it!
    I hate eggplant, the fruit. But i grow it every year because the flowers are just so beautiful. That color of flowers doesn’t grow well around me so screw it, I grow eggplant and pick the flowers 😂

  4. urbanevol

    If you learned something then it’s never a failure anyway!

  5. Old_Touch3534

    Very nice 👍🏻

    Gardening is a never ending learning curve.

  6. Old_Touch3534

    We never have failure. But lessons instead

  7. Inquiring-Wanderer75

    Well done, you are now an official gardener!! And good job sticking it out through a difficult season! That’s a part of gardening, learning to deal with adversity and go with the flow. We always planted a variety of crops, so we would at least have success with some of them! You’ve got the gardening bug now, best wishes for your future gardens!!

  8. Cold-Crab74

    Nice, I have had absolutely no luck getting any pollination on mine