Deep into our garden, way in the back sits a small green plant. Its an eggplant… and for the last month or so it has not done much of anything. Our cucumber vines were expanding, threatening to take over the eggplant and block the sunlight from it. We repositioned the surging vines, thus saving the tiny plant.

Under the shadows cast by our colossal cucumber vines, the formation of our eggplants started. Several new leaves were seen growing out, stretching, as if they were trying to reach the sun. The plant grew taller, rivaling the height of some of our pepper plants. After expanding upwards, the plant slowed down and decided to concentrate more of its energy on fruit production. A bud or two started to grow outwards, they opened, and then two tiny violet flowers appeared. Slowly, a little lump formed underneath one of them, a purple lump. It grew larger, growing bigger everyday. It was our first eggplant.

Today it has reached the size of a tennis ball, and there are several more on the way. The only question that remains is, what will it taste like? It is certain though that for all the work put into the garden it will surely be a delicious treat.