Aubergine

The greenhouse crops have done well this year, as they usually do. It is easier to manage the environment in the greenhouse, or polytunnel if you have one. Unlike the main vegetable plots that have suffered with drought conditions and successive heatwaves this year. Still, some crops have done well. The most recent to be ready for harvesting, sweetcorn of which we sampled the first today, looks laden with cobs. 

Back to the greenhouse. The highlight this year is aubergines. I've picked quite a few already and there are more to come. Planting them into the border rather than pots appears to consistently be the better method if you have the space.

We both like aubergines very much and are surprised how many people we come across who aren't too keen on them. They do have the drawback of not being very preservable for later use. But visitors partial to aubergine don't go home empty handed.