eggplant promises

Been doin' some happy jig these days, what with my eggplants pregnant with fruits and flowers!

the first eggplant fruit to emerge, ever, from my vegetable garden

Why am I especially happy?

I did say last time that this is my first time to raise eggplants in any garden...including those I had in elementary.

(We had a subject called Practical Arts where one of the life skills we were taught was gardening--which I made every effort to escape from harharhar! I always earned a trip to the Principal's Office when I got caught. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance of growing eggplants, just ornamentals.)

eggplant flowers emerging

Are those eggplant flowers?

Those are flower buds, right? I'm really not sure. Could be just leaves emerging. Let's wait and see.

A day later (today, that is)...

It is a full-fledged eggplant flower!

Dayum! Those were really eggplant flowers I saw the first time. And here's another one for tomorrow's full bloom!

I think eggplant flowers are one of the most colorful, most beautiful blooms in the whole wide world, sniff.

Can't wait to harvest my first ever eggplant fruits grown from seed...in fact, the first eggplants I have ever planted my whole, entire life! (Exaggerated cheer, I know, but don't mess with the glee of a brown-thumb-turned-obsessed-vegetable-gardener at achieving another vegetable gardening milestone, heh.)