Fruiting: Baby eggplant
Mel has a baby white eggplant. It might be because I don’t really like to eat eggplant, but I hope we don’t plant this again. It seems to attract every known pest to the garden. Everything loves it. Miraculously, the tomatoes and beans seem fine. So far I’ve “mechanically controlled” (read picked off or squished) earwigs, flea beetles, tortoiseshell beatles, japanese beetles, a caterpillar or two, and slugs of course. Or is this normal? I’ve never had a veggie garden before.
I wasn’t sure if I should kill the earwigs. I know they do eat some other insects, but I read they like to eat beans, so off they went.
I’ll try to get some pics soon.
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Spicy's Eggplant progress journal
This entry is about Spicy's Eggplant that
was previously in the Vegetable garden garden.
Mount Gretna PA, United States
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Listen in on the Grapevine
Ceae wrote:
I’m not sure about all the beetles – my limited understanding is that some beetles are good, most are bad – but I would definitely get rid of the earwigs. I’ve had a horrible time with the dreadful critters. I’m fairy certain they’ve chomped holes into a couple tomatoes and peppers, and done significant damage to my basil. I’ve never seen them on the beans – bean leaf beetles seem to responsible for all the damage there, but I wouldn’t put it past the earwigs either! With you on the eggplant too … yuck :)
Posted on 13 Aug 08 (about 5 months ago)