with knife and fork » aubergine http://withknifeandfork.com a blog mostly about food Mon, 25 May 2015 16:04:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Aubergine tragedy http://withknifeandfork.com/aubergine-tragedy-2 http://withknifeandfork.com/aubergine-tragedy-2#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:19:00 +0000 http://withknifeandfork.posterous.com/aubergine-tragedy In early September I was wondering whether my mini aubergine would get large enough to harvest…. it was quite small back then as you can see in my Teeny tiny aubergine post.

Well it did grow quite well and it looked lovely and glossy and like it might be a winner.

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Then something awful happened….

The snails that had been plaguing the runner beans got to it.

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I was able to salvage about half of it.

Not really enough for a moussaka.

And possibly the most expensive half aubergine ever.

Not sure I’ll try again next year.

]]> http://withknifeandfork.com/aubergine-tragedy-2/feed 2 Teeny tiny aubergine http://withknifeandfork.com/teeny-tiny-aubergine http://withknifeandfork.com/teeny-tiny-aubergine#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:37:00 +0000 http://goodshoeday.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/teeny-tiny-aubergine Continue reading Teeny tiny aubergine]]> Some of the things in the garden are starting to be ripe and harvestable.

Some are only just forming.

I fear many of them will be too late to grow enough before the season is over.

Like this teeny tiny aubergine.

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Less than a week on its now actually twice that size.

What do you reckon its chances are?

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