I am growing the ichiban variety because it is more tolerate of hot weather and although it's still spring time in Florida, we've had several days in the 90's already. The ichiban have taken the hot weather very well. We had three of them in the pictures below for last night's supper and all were very good.
I've had bad luck growing classic eggplant in my raised bed garden, but that is primarily due to a lack of cold weather protection in the fall of the year. I learned that ichiban can take more hot weather, so from now on I'll be growing ichiban eggplant.
I'm not sure it's plainly visible in the pictures, but about 30% of my eggplant succumbed to the pesky little devil known as the tomato horn worm, which obviously also like to snack on eggplant. :o)
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