Isn't it aggravating when plants do that? I had a black beauty eggplant this year that was the most beautiful vigorous plant you could want to see, and always covered with blossoms, but it never set a single fruit.

My long asian purple eggplants are pumping out more than we can use and I'm having to give a bunch away every few weeks lol. They perform way better than the Black Beauties for me. Too bad because I like the BBs better but you can pretty much use the others the same way.

My peppers are doing good. The habanero we got from H Depo is going crazy and has about 30 peppers on the plant.

Last year I grew birdhouse gourds and they made several gourds. I just left it in a 1 gallon pot and let it grow into the ground and put it where the pot was in the shade and the plant could vine on a wire fence into the sun. Did really good that way. I might try some winter squash and melons that way. You just have to make sure the pot is well watered. It might be good to bury the pot half way and put some holes on the sides so the roots can grow out side ways.

Yeah, my ping tung long produced incredible numbers of fruit this year. I'd just like to have an eggplant that is wide enough for stuffing. I have to say I think the flavor of ping tung is better than that of BB.

writersblock, Bonnie Plants has the Ichiban now, if you can still find one at Lowe's or HD or maybe WalMart. The ones I had long ago were large enough to stuff.

Thanks, DG, but I'm planning to take my tower garden down next week until the end of September.

I've heard Kuruma is a good substitute, but I hate to order a single packet of seeds and there's nothing else at Kitazawa that I want for next season.

I wish you were closer, we could split an order at Kitazawa. There are several things I want, and there are plenty of eggplant seeds in that pack for both of us.