It's been an extremely cool year here so far and I'm in a weird micro climate that stays 5-8 degrees cooler than "town" just 15 miles away. I sit in a bowl between the Coast Range mountains and a large hill. I thought I'd give it a whirl this year!! Of course, as soon as I planted we had 3 nights of very light frost (last one on Memorial Day), then 2 days later it was 80 degrees. I'm sure ALL my plants are just confused right now! :-) Deanna

I agree I think the tags must've got switched. This happened to me last year too. I thought I had gotten Black Beauty, but they turned out to be 'Easter Egg' eggplant variety. This variety is white in colour right from the start. They should be picked when they are about the size of an egg and shiny. Did the fruit start off white and then turned yellow? Once it turns yellow it is overripe and will taste bitter. I also read somewhere that there are yellow egg varieties that are more of an ornamental plant and not edible. I think those are the ones that are yellow in colour right from the start. (Sorry, Couldn't find the link to the article.) I found the ones I had grown last year didn't taste too bad. They were a little bland and sometimes if it had gotten a little big it was a little hard, slightly bitter and seedy. Sometimes it was hard timing it when the fruit would be just right because even a day over it would become overripe. Here's what my eggplants looked like.

If you can see the green caterpillar then most likely it's the cabbage looper. Sometimes called an inchworm. I just flick them off into a coffee can with some detergent and water. You can use BT which kills them by being systemic. That means it is actually inside the plant and the plant is now deadly to the worm. I've never used it since it MUST have some effect on the rest of the world. I'm probably being a bit paranoid there. Try the detergent first. The damage to your plant, going by the picture, isn't severe as yet. By the way, those cute little white butterflies we see all summer are the culprit. Some people spray a little cheap vanilla extract on the plants and it seems to confuse the butterfly (moth). They go everywhere and apparently recognize your brassicas by aroma. Makes sense. Then they lay their eggs and along comes the hungry caterpillar. Hope all this helps somewhat. Best wishes with your plants.

Look like sprouting Cauliflower. Do you know the named variety? What is the weather like? Real hot? Real wet? You can eat the stems now, it is not going to go back to "normal" at this point. Heck, since they are growing like that, maybe they will grow more if you cut them like Broccoli. Doesn't hurt to try, unless you want the space for something else.