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**Mischka** · February 7, 2006

I grow a few eggplants every year to appease my wife; she detests eating tomatoes unless cooked beyond recognition. :wink:

Her favorite dish is eggplant parmesan served with ziti, so that's the only way I prepare it here.

I've only grown "Black Beauty" so I'm excited to hear about other varieties other Tomatovillians have grown.
I have noticed that eggplants are great aphid magnets in my growing area; they seem to congregate in great number on the leaves' undersides.

Althea, you and others here might find this link interesting and enlightening. It details the Solanaceae family in great depth.

http://www.hvanbalken.com/plant.html

February 7, 2006	#14
Mischka Tomatoville® Administrator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The Bay State Posts: 3,207	I grow a few eggplants every year to appease my wife; she detests eating tomatoes unless cooked beyond recognition. :wink: Her favorite dish is eggplant parmesan served with ziti, so that's the only way I prepare it here. I've only grown "Black Beauty" so I'm excited to hear about other varieties other Tomatovillians have grown. I have noticed that eggplants are great aphid magnets in my growing area; they seem to congregate in great number on the leaves' undersides. Althea, you and others here might find this link interesting and enlightening. It details the Solanaceae family in great depth. http://www.hvanbalken.com/plant.html __________________ Mischka One last word of farewell, Dear Master and Mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also with happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loved us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.