Hi, I'm looking for Ping Tung eggplant (the OP kind) and Indian Stripe tomato seeds. I'd also love to get some seeds for those round green Thai eggplants! You can also check out my trade list :) I have: (G) Gai lan - Chinese broccoli, Kailan, Kailaan (G) Swiss chard - red stemmed (C) Summer squash - Black Beauty Zucchini (C) Summer squash - Early Prolific Straightneck (T) Summer squash - Crook neck treated (C) Pepper - NuMex Big Jim (L) (C) Pepper - Corno di Toro Giallo (L) (C) Pepper - Hungarian hot wax (T) Pepper - Peter pepper (L) (T) Pepper - Alma paprika (L) (T) Pepper - Yellow bell (L) (T) Pepper - Orange cal wonder (L) (T) Okra - Red burgundy (L) (T) Pumpkin - Jack be little (T) Winter squash - Spaghetti (T) Beans - Kentucky Wonder White (Pole 191) (C) Tomato - Ananas Noire (L) (T) Tomato - Green zebra (G) Tomato - Kellogg's Breakfast RL (L) (T) Tomato - Yellow cherry (L) (T) Tomato - Rosalita pink grape (L) (C) Ground cherry (C) Corn - Kandy Korn (C) Corn - Sugar Pearl (C) Corn - Silver Queen treated (T) Catnip (T) Basil - Sweet (T) Cosmos - Sea shells (T) Cosmos - Sensation (L) (T) Cosmos - Sunset (T) Cosmos - pink, purple, pale pink (T) Coreopsis - mix (T) Dame's Rocket (T) Columbine mix

I happily discovered that these kinds of eggplant spreads freeze and thaw very well, and I've already frozen several quarts this summer of variations on the babaganoche theme - eggplant puree flavored with lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, and tahini. I haven't tried an Asian twist like this recipe, and that looks great.

Sorry about that. I just got home from school yesterday so here are some pictures of the mother plant. My family has not taken good care of it, so I think the abnormal leaves are maybe caused by irregular watering and/or lack of light? I'm pretty confident the red is caused by light intensity, as all of them turned back to green. The first picture is the "normal" leaf I saw when it was growing on my back porch and the second is the "round" kind from the original etiolated plant...

I'm posting pictures as a means to share what I'm dealing with, maybe someone has seen it before? It looks like both of my green zebras have some kind of wilt; It is not affecting any of the other tomatoes. I don't know what kind of wilt it is, or if maybe it's something other than wilt. A few key points: * The bed is brand new, nothing ever grown here previously * It was filled with ~16cu ft. of Miracle Grow Garden Bed soil; 48" x 48" x 12" (L x W x D) * They are not watered daily, soil is moist under the surface, but not saturated * There are two other tomato varieties in the same bed, just a foot or two away, with no wilt problems * There are no signs of moles or other pests in my yard * This location gets at least 6 hours of aternoon sun every day. * The tomatoes had an abundance of 1mm-2mm beige spider/beetle bugs on top of the leaves as reported in the first post of this thread Here are two photos of the two plants in question: I know these aren't the best pictures, they were taken with my Blackberry. Note in the first picture that most of the leaves and branches look amazing - and no bugs - but there are also complete branches just starting to wilt, or fully wilted. The first one looks like it has two small cankers or something on the side, this is how I bought the plant. It was one of the last ones left, and I jumped on it. In the second picture, note that some of the branches that are wilted are coming off of a main stalk, and the rest of the main stalk is fine, as are the other branches coming off of it. It's like ... it's completely random. I don't see any holes in the branches, although there are a lot of "pimples" on the stems of the plant, more so than the other nearby tomatoes, but I just figured this is normal for this variety? I'm tossing it out there just in case. I am going to post these over on the tomato or heirloom forum to see if I can get anyone who has seen something like this. I found a page via Google that talks about green zebra wilt in North Carolina, but it's dated June 2006. Could it be related? http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/tomatowilt06.html