Earlier in the week, I posted this pic of my little ichiban eggplants, flowering like crazy. Well, one of the plants has started to set fruit with a vengance. I harvested two this morning, and can see two more that will be ready tomorrow or Monday, and another two that are just starting to emerge. These little eggplants are only supposed to get about 9″ long, so they only take a few days to go from flower to full sized fruit.

In other news, the monarch caterpillars have now completely stripped the butterfly week, leaving nothing but bare canes. They’ve moved on—I caught the last one walking off the edge of the front porch yesterday, headed I don’t know where.