[doodad]

Checked on the garden yesterday. Radishes are done and will be harvested today. Chard outer leaves are ready enough for a small app type dish, squash blossoms stuffed with cheese will be the other app. Eggplant needs insecticidal soap applied, but rain is here.

Tomatoes, beans and peppers are all in bloom or forming small fruit. Herb garden is kicking.

[LuLuLuLu]

Can I come to your house for dinner? I LOVE squash blossoms!

I’ll wash dishes.

[Red_Devil 232]

We have had a couple of zukes already and a few strawberries. My eggplants needed the soap treatment last week, they are doing great! Peppers, tomatoes and cukes doing great!

[Tarheel]

I try to plant something ‘different’ each year as an experiment. Today I put in one eggplant in a large container. I have never seen them growing and have googled eggplant for cultivation ideas. The eggplant will be this year's experiment.

Since you grow eggplant any insight you can offer me w/b appreciated. Do they need staking? You mentioned bugs—what kind?

I am in zone 7 and grow tomatoes, peppers and squash with good success.

[tillacum]

How do you do squash blossoms? I have a bunch and they look all male, very few female blooms. I’m no gardener, but the book says only the female blooms have a nubbin beneath the bloom and the male blooms form straight from the stalk.