I cooked my first eggplant for dinner. It was a little small but tasted great. I'm going to pick them regularly now, as supposedly, that stimulates higher fruit production. It's the same thing with the green beans. I methodically swept through all the bean bushes and ended up with about a pound of beans and cooked them with tomatoes. By the calendar, I planted the green beans a little late, but they're been producing like champs.